Stroke is the most common cause of chronic adult disability in theUnited Kingdom. Of the people who survive stroke, 85 percent are leftwith some degree of arm paresis. After five years, 25 percent of ...

A advancement in the diagnosis of upper limb (UL) spasticity is on the horizon, moving beyond traditional reliance on clinicians' tactile assessments. Researchers affiliated with UNIST have developed ...

Robotic limbs like those seen in science fiction books and films including "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" are increasingly becoming possible in the real world, but most robotic prosthetics are still ...

Cleveland Clinic researchers have engineered a first-of-its-kind bionic arm for patients with upper-limb amputations that allows wearers to think, behave and function like a person without an ...

Alion Science and Technology has recently been awarded a $1 million contract to lead a modeling and simulation research effort that could help enhance the field of prosthetic limbs for wounded ...

HOLT – It’s time for the morning meeting in Betty Brown’s sixth-grade classroom at Holt’s Hope Middle School, and the students are learning an important skill: shaking hands. “Not a floppy fish, not ...

A paralyzed woman who was one of the first people to control a robotic arm using thought alone has finished a two-year run on a high note — by beating her brother at rock-paper-scissors. Jan ...