Lexy was a producer and on-air presenter who covered consumer tech, including the latest smartphones, wearables and emerging trends like assistive robotics. She won two Gold Telly Awards for her video ...

A virtual forearm can bend in a blink. It can also take its time, easing toward a target as if it is thinking about the move. In a new virtual reality study, both extremes felt wrong. When a ...

The most advanced new surgical procedure, AMI, addresses proprioception. This refers to the ability to sense position and movement. In an intact human arm or leg, muscles work in pairs. When a bicep ...

This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Scott Pelley reports on innovations in the technology of prosthetics. It is a subject he has been following on the broadcast for more than a decade. To mark the ...

Few entrepreneurs can claim as intimate a connection to their products as Jonathan Kuniholm. As an engineer working at the forefront of some of the latest research to improve prosthetic arms, Kuniholm ...

Some prosthetics require users to flex their muscles to make simple movements. An Atom Limbs prosthesis taps into the signals their brain is sending. Segway Inventor Creates Revolutionary ...

Keven Walgamott had a good "feeling" about picking up the egg without crushing it. What seems simple for nearly everyone else can be more of a Herculean task for Walgamott, who lost his left hand and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. VR tests show autonomous prosthetic arms feel most “yours” when they move at human-like speed, about a 1-second reach. (CREDIT: ...