NEW YORK (WABC) -- Some high school students in Manhattan are using their math lessons to lend a literal helping hand. They've created and built a prosthetic using a 3-D printer. It's not your ...

For those who lose their fingers or are born without them, 3-D printers may offer an affordable way to develop prosthetics. The average cost of a prosthetic leg can be between $5,000 and $50,000, and ...

Fabrizio wasn't sure what to expect of his newly outfitted prosthetic hand, until he touched one of the researchers who'd given it to him. "When one of the researchers placed the sensor on his own ...

College and high school students in Ohio are using 3-D printing to solve medical problems in the community. A group of biomedical engineering students at the University of Cincinnati started a student ...

Taking a drink. Turning a key. Swiping a credit card. For people who wear artificial arms and hands, these basic tasks can be insurmountable. Most prosthetic hands can pick up objects only between the ...

Prosthetic technology has created substantial improvements, yet due to its limitations in dexterity and functionality, prosthetic users have not fully been able to conduct the complex motions that ...

For my doctoral dissertation, I developed a novel myoelectric control algorithm that allows for continuous control of the hand posture including all necessary postures used in activities of daily ...

In a room inside Dankmeyer Prosthetics and Orthotics, employees are making and modifying prosthetic limbs for those who need them. “We’re the interface between the patient and getting their device ...