Tag: Science & Technology

Top: A printed electrode pattern of the new polymer being stretched to several times of its original length. Bottom: A ...

People with upper-limb loss are one step closer to picking up a cookie or an egg without crushing them, thanks ...

Dahiya poses with a prosthetic hand covered in the solar-powered electronic skin. Photograph courtesy of the University of Glasgow. Engineers ...

Crowdfunding campaigns to pay for medical costs have become a booming industry in recent years, with sites like GoFundMe raising ...

Clancy tests the hand-wrist prosthesis. Photograph courtesy of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. A research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is ...

Photograph of Hichert by Jos Wassink, courtesy of TU Delft. Mona Hichert, MSc, a biomechanical engineer and doctoral candidate from ...

Albert Shih, PhD, a professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering and the lead on the project, displays a 3D-printed AFO. ...

The shoulder-level robotic prosthesis is controlled by a sensor that is placed on the patient's pectoral muscle. Photograph courtesy of ...

Photograph of textile actuators manufacturing, courtesy of the study authors and Science Advances. Researchers at Linköping University and the University ...

The American Diabetes Association (Association) unveiled a new online hub-makeinsulinaffordable.org-as part of its Stand Up for Affordable Insulin Initiative, which ...

The flexible sensor film (transparent) can measure the temperature of a heating plate (white). In red is a gripping device. ...

(Left to right) Aggie Innovators Natalia Perez, Abdiel Jimenez, and Arturo Dominguez developed a wheelchair for Kita and his owner ...

Microscopic crystals could soon be zipping drugs around your body, taking them to diseased organs. In the past, this was ...

The multifunctional tactile sensor is inspired by human hairy skin structure. Photograph courtesy of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Electronic-skin ...

Ortiz Catalan demonstrates the augmented virtual reality environment in his new Biomechatronics and Neurorehabilitation Laboratory at Chalmers. Photograph courtesy of ...

A doctoral student shakes hands with an optoelectronically innervated prosthesis. Photograph by Huichan Zhao, courtesy of Cornell. Most robots achieve ...

An intact, live acorn worm. The head is on the far left. Photograph by Shawn Luttrell, courtesy of the University ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers have found a new approach to creating artificial muscle fibers that reproduce some of ...

Ewing takes his first steps with a prosthesis. Photograph courtesy of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Communications and Public Affairs. Earlier ...

The American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists (the Academy) will invest $210,000 in O&P research initiatives. Using scientific, research-based tactics, ...

Using synthetic DNA sequences as the tiniest of barcodes, Technion researchers have developed a new diagnostic technology for determining the ...

Human motion biomechanics researchers at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) have been awarded a three-year, $513,000 grant by the ...

Smart phone apps could offer patients with type 2 diabetes a highly effective method of self-managing their condition, concluded a ...

The BBCIs being developed at CSNE can both record from and stimulate the nervous system. They would also allow the ...

Implanted peripheral nerve electrodes deliver stimulation directly to the nerve. Image courtesy of Graczyk et al., Science Translational Medicine. Scientists ...

Richmond Jack Richmond, CPOA, CFo, has been named president and CEO of the Amputee Coalition. He has been serving as ...

A prototype of a smart sock that can add sensation to a lower-limb prosthesis was presented at the Association for ...

Blood testing is the standard option for checking glucose levels, but a new technology described in the journal Advanced Materials ...

Researchers at the University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, Australia, are trialing a new smartphone app that helps people with diabetes ...

Photograph of the fashion show participants courtesy of UNYQ. On September 15, the White House hosted a Design For All ...

Rebekah Marine is a model, an inspirational speaker, and an ambassador for the Lucky Fin Project (LFP).

The world’s first Cybathlon is scheduled for October 8 in Zurich, Switzerland.

The Distraction in Action app offers parents tips about how to help their child through a medical procedure. Image by ...

Wireless, battery-less implantable sensors could improve brain control of prosthetics, avoiding wires that go through the skull. The sensor is ...

Laura Donlon. Image courtesy of Beaumont Health. According to the National Institutes of Health, 80 percent of adults will experience ...

To demonstrate that any pattern can be produced on a cube's surface, the researchers developed a cube of 10x10x10 blocks ...

A bioengineering doctoral student in the ASU Neural Engineering Lab demonstrates how patients will use the Oculus Rift headset to ...

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Michael Hutcheson gardens at his home to gain a sense of purpose. U.S. Army National Guard ...

Group that climbed Cayambe in 2015. Image courtesy of ROMP. On July 24-25, Karl Egloff, an elite athlete and one ...

The core of the system is the osseointegrated human-machine gateway (OHMG), a bone-anchoring technique developed at Göteborgs Universitet, which is ...

Image courtesy of Laurent Qy Photography. In a recent TEDx Talk in Paris, Jothy Rosenberg, a two-time cancer survivor, amputee, ...

The AMPARO prosthetic socket was named a winner of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Innovation Showcase (ISHOW), held ...

People with diabetes may suffer from wounds that are slow to heal and can lead to ulcers, gangrene, and amputation. ...

A study in the June issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery concluded there is minimal risk for ...

Hugh Herr, PhD, associate professor of media arts and sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has been given ...

A side-by-side comparison of the prosthetic and a natural foot in stiletto heel shoes. Photograph courtesy of the Johns Hopkins ...

A team of scientists from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, are now working to use spinach to transform the production of ...

Aadeel Akhtar, a medical student and neuroscience doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), won the $18,000 ...

From left, lead researcher Mehri and Menon are leading a team working with Letain on building a better bionic hand. ...

The American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association (AOPA) held a press conference warning that, as it and other industry stakeholders predicted, ...