Community raises thousands to help a Madison woman who lost hands and legs buy prosthetics

Just a little over a year ago, a 25-year-old woman from Madison had to have her hands and legs amputated after contracting ...
NPR

Amputees often feel disconnected from their bionic hands. AI could bridge the gap

Researchers have built a prosthetic hand that, with the help of artificial intelligence, can act a lot more like a natural one. The key is to have the hand recognize when the user wants to do ...
Ars Technica

Scientists built an AI co-pilot for prosthetic bionic hands

Modern bionic hand prostheses nearly match their natural counterparts when it comes to dexterity, degrees of freedom, and capability. And many amputees who tried advanced bionic hands apparently ...
MarketWatch

BrainCo Intelligent Prosthetic Bionic Hand Wins the 2024 CATON FAIR DESIGN AWARD

GUANGZHOU, China, Nov. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On October 24th, the award ceremony for the 2024 CATON FAIR DESIGN AWARD was held in Guangzhou. In this selection, BrainCo Intelligent Prosthetic Bionic ...
Tech Xplore on MSN

New soft prosthetic hand offers natural bionic interfacing

Recent technological advances have opened new possibilities for the development of assistive and medical tools, including ...
ZME Science on MSN

This bionic hand shares control with its user and makes everyday tasks easier

A Styrofoam coffee cup is easy to underestimate. It weighs almost nothing and collapses under the slightest excess pressure. For most people, picking it up is effortless. For someone using a ...
WFLA News Channel 8

VIDEO: Woman severely injured during robbery gets bionic hands for Christmas

(KSNW) — It has been a year and a half since a robbery and shooting left Julie Dombo of Derby, Kansas a quadruple amputee. Now thanks to some generous donors, she’s getting a new lease on life. She ...
NPR

Scientists use AI to help make bionic hands work better for people who need them

Scientists are using artificial intelligence to help bionic limbs act more like natural ones. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on an experimental hand that shares control with the user to carry out tricky ...
YourTango

Woman Who Lost Her Hand In Shark Attack Forced To Raise Money For A Prosthetic After Insurance Company Said It’s Not Medically Necessary

The internet has become inundated with health insurance horror stories following the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. You'd be hard-pressed to find a single American who hasn't had an ...
HUB

Feeling is believing: Bionic hand 'knows' what it's touching, grasps like a human

Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its ...
lex18

Unstoppable with or without: 10-year-old receives specialty bionic hand

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — On any given day at the Lykins home, you’ll find brothers Eli and Parker shooting hoops, tossing the football, or playing baseball. “Can you go easy so I can beat you?” Eli ...