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While we’ve seen some extraordinary prosthetics recently—including one that is a real steampunk dream come true—a company by the name of Esper Bionics has developed a bionic hand that appears to work ...

Researchers in Europe have developed a prosthetic hand that gave an Italian man with a missing limb the ability to feel sensations of warmth and coolness when touching various objects. The new device ...

For most people, sensing temperature is second nature. You grab a hot cup of coffee and instinctively pull back if it's too warm. You touch a cold glass of water and immediately register the chill.

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses advances in prosthetic sensory feedback. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the ...

Steven Reimer M.S. ’24 stepped back from the table after placing the final sensor on the patient’s arm. Two years of hard work had led to this moment. He had traveled 8,000 miles to Jaipur, India to ...

Lifting a glass, making a fist, entering a phone number using the index finger: it is amazing the things cutting-edge robotic hands can already do thanks to biomedical technology. However, things that ...

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 ...

This article was first published in the November 2015 issue of WIRED magazine. Be the first to read WIRED's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional ...

The first time Angel Giuffria saw the logo on her bionic hand, she felt a sense of pride. She was born without the lower half of her left arm, and started wearing a prosthesis at six weeks old. Back ...