Bionic arms for kids have a come long way from where they started 10 years ago in Central Florida. They couldn’t hold much. They were costly to make and replace for growing kids. And they didn’t have ...

STORY: In a Nigerian laboratory, Gift Usen experienced something she’d dreamed of her entire life: the feeling of having two complete hands. Born with her left arm ending at the elbow, she tested a ...

Bionic arms are beginning to tap into nerve signals that linger long after a limb is gone, turning the ghost of movement into real, controllable action. Instead of relying on crude muscle twitches or ...

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Three children are feeling pure joy this December about "the best Christmas present in the world." Ettie Baker, age 8, Zoey Hampton-Pigeon, age 8, and Finn Jarvis, age 11, were all given ...

Phantom pain was all that Keven Walgamott had left of the limb he lost in an accident over a decade ago — until he tried on the LUKE Arm for the first time in 2017, and told researchers that he could ...

An eight-year-old girl with a limb difference is trying to raise $25,000 (£20K) for a Spider-Man-themed bionic prosthetic – so she can “finally pinch her sister with her right hand.” Vienna Young was ...

UYO, Nigeria (Reuters) -Gift Usen cannot wait to have her hand. Born 25 years ago in Akwa Ibom, southern Nigeria, she has navigated through her life with only one fully developed hand. "I grew up to ...