Prosthetics Research

YouTube - Dean Kamen's Robotic "Luke" Arm

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:48:49 PST

Segway inventor Dean Kamen is looking to re-invent the prosthetic arm. IEEE Spectrum caught up with Kamen and one of his "test pilots," to see the ...

New robotic hand 'can feel'

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:04:30 PDT

A team of scientists from Italy and Sweden has developed what is believed to be the first artificial hand that has feeling. It has been attached to the arm of a...

Sensor Fusion Movies

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:41:53 PDT

* Real-time tracking of a bouncing ping-pong ball: * With a racket: [WMV-1,2MB], [WMV-394KB] * Free fall and bouncing: [WMV-222KB], [WMV-628KB]

Competitive prosthetic action - compare movement and function

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:46:36 PDT

Posted on September 21, 2008 Current new developments in hand prosthetics are the iLimb (TouchBionics) and the Michelangelo hand (Otto Bock). Both are termed bionic...

Exploration, Vanderbilt's Online Research Magazine - New prosthetic arm is...

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:08:40 PDT

A mechanical arm powered by a miniature rocket motor has been developed and tested by a team of mechanical engineers at Vanderbilt as part of a $30 million federal...

Mind-controlled prosthetic arm plays the piano

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:14:07 PDT

(PopSci.com) -- More than 130 veterans of the Iraq war now face the daunting challenge of learning to live with a missing arm. To make that transition easier, the Defense...

Dean Kamen Lends a Hand, or Two

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:16:24 PDT

Eighteen months ago Segway entrepreneur and serial inventor Dean Kamen received a visit from Anthony Tether, the electrical engineer who runs the Defense Advanced...

i-Limb Video

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:06:48 PDT

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The i-LIMB Hand

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:48:34 PDT

Touch Bionics is a leading developer of advanced upper-limb prosthetics (ULP). One of the two products now commercially available from the company, the i-LIMB Hand, is a...

Terminator Hand Hits North America

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:06:41 PDT

Watch the Touch Bionics i-LIMB Hand, the world's first bionic hand, in action. An interview with Juan Arredondo and Lindsay Block.

Photos: Bionic hand gets thumbs-up

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:21:04 PDT

Touch Bionics announced Tuesday what it calls the world's first commercially available bionic hand, a prosthetic hand that moves more naturally than traditional...

Dean Kamen and the Robotic Arm

Mon, 21 May 2007 13:42:34 PDT

American inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen, known best for the Segway Human Transporter, spoke today at Oceanit, a high-tech firm based in Honolulu. As pa...

Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 Team Delivers First DARPA Limb Prototype

Thu, 10 May 2007 20:17:25 PDT

The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), the nation's leading physical medicine and rehabilitation hospital, announced today successful completion of the prototype...

Revolutionary mechanical arm provides grip, feel

Fri, 04 May 2007 08:52:15 PDT

Remember Luke Skywalker's amazingly lifelike arm replacement in The Empire Strikes Back? A similar type of realistic arm may be in store for injured soldiers. The Johns...

Woman with bionic arm regains sense of touch

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:44:23 PST

In a commentary published in The Lancet medical journal, Dr Leigh Hochberg, a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, said early results for the new operating...

For 1st Woman With Bionic Arm, a New Life Is Within Reach

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:15:20 PDT

The first time Claudia Mitchell peeled a banana one-handed, she cried. It was several months after she lost her left arm at the shoulder in a motorcycle accident. She...

The Magic Touch

Sun, 16 Jul 2006 10:40:19 PDT

Last October we reported on the first mind-controlled bionic limb, a multimillion-dollar prosthetic arm built by scientists at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago [“A...

Paolo Dario

Sun, 16 Jul 2006 10:36:58 PDT

Hot off the press from Textile and fibre Technology

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:51:31 PDT

Scientists from the NanoTech Institute of the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) and their collaborator, Ken Atkinson from CSIRO, have followed up on their...

Robot hand controlled by thought alone

Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:45:08 PDT

A robotic hand controlled by the power of thought alone has been demonstrated by researchers in Japan. The robotic hand mimics the movements of a person's real hand,...

The Cyberhand Project - www.cyberhand.org

Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:39:58 PDT

Touch Bionics

Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:22:46 PDT

Touch Bionics, ProDigits, Edinburgh Arm and i-LIMB™ are trademarks and the Touch Bionics logo is a trademark of Touch EMAS Limited. Third-party product and brand names...

William Craelius

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 14:39:35 PDT

Bionics: The Six Million Dollar Question

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 14:32:20 PDT

You won’t hear much about bionics outside medical conferences these days, but when The Six Million Dollar Man hit the airwaves during the 70s, it was a hot topic of...

Southampton scientists move closer to bionic hand

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 14:28:27 PDT

22 September 2005 Scientists at Southampton University have developed a new ultra-light artificial hand that can mimic the movement of a real hand better than any...

Bionic fiction becomes science fact

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 14:26:25 PDT

Funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies initiative of the IST programme, the CYBERHAND project aims to hard wire this hand into the nervous system, allowing...

The Cyberhand bionic hand feels and flexes

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 14:24:37 PDT

The Europeans responsible for the "Cyberhand" have, along with it's scifi-esque moniker, given their creation some scifi-esque capabilities that bode well for amputees...

BIONIC HAND: Revolutionizing Prosthetics

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 14:22:34 PDT

DefenseTech.org is a blog that has the inside scoop on the latest developments in technology. From Predator drones to biowar defense, computer security to nuclear...

Paralympic Athletes, Equipped for Success

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 21:01:44 PDT

Paralympians rarely suffer from self-pity; in fact, they seem to be a feisty lot. Upper-limb amputees still cycle, swim, and play tennis and hockey. To hold a hockey...

Life and limb: Middle East war amputees are bouncing back on high-tech arms and...

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 20:58:01 PDT

ON AUGUST 21, Army Specialist Ernesto Godoy, 25, and four other soldiers were traveling in a Humvee near Dai Chopan, Afghanistan, when a bomb that had been hidden in the...