When we tie our shoelaces or open a bottle of soda, we do it on autopilot, reflexively. Meanwhile, millions of people all around the world are deprived of this opportunity due to amputated limbs. Only ...

Scientists use millions of foam lattice combinations to create a robotic elephant with a twisting trunk and jointed limbs.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a method to restore astoundingly natural movement in people who have had leg amputations above the knee. Rather than fit ...

MIT researchers have introduced a groundbreaking bionic knee designed to significantly improve mobility for people with above ...

China has unveiled new policies to accelerate the development and adoption of brain-computer interface technology for medical ...

For decades, above-the-knee amputees have had to live with stiff, uncomfortable prosthetics that felt more like rigid tools ...

While last year's trial focused on folks with below-the-knee amputations, this one worked with above-the-knee amputees.

Aiming at the problems of poor comfort, narrow application range and complicated wearing of the existing lower limb rehabilitation equipment, an intelligent wearable device is designed in this paper.

MIT researchers have built a bone-anchored bionic knee that lets above-knee amputees walk faster, climb stairs and clear ...