It took four decades for Fred Downs to be able to pinch himself with his left hand. Or open a jar. Or turn a key in the front door of his Virginia home. Downs now sports a new prosthetic arm funded by ...

(Nanowerk News) DARPA launched the Revolutionizing Prosthetics program with a radical goal: gain U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for an advanced electromechanical prosthetic upper ...

DARPA's Revolutionizing Prosthetics program aims to develop technologies that can restore a near-natural sense of touch. A prosthetic hand that is connected directly to the brain successfully enabled ...

Many modern prosthetic limbs are so intricate that they seem like something from the sci-fi cyborg realm. Unfortunately, to the wearer these marvels still feel like lumps of dead metal and plastic.

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, is using a $375,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research to educate the children of servicemen and women about prosthetics using ...