Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a method to restore astoundingly natural movement in people who have had leg amputations above the knee. Rather than fit ...

More than 2 million Americans have lost a limb, and it's estimated there are 185,000 amputations every year. New technology in prosthetics is helping many amputees move forward. Robert Wright has kept ...

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There's been a lot of research into how to give robots and prosthesis wearers a sense of touch, but it has focused largely on the hands. Now, researchers led by ETH Zurich want to restore sensory ...

Enabling a child who is physically disabled to participate in a sport they love is the quickest way to restore their damaged self-esteem. For a child who has either lost a leg or who was born without ...