A team of researchers in Spain are using video games developed on a free platform and a specialized controller to help with hand and wrist rehabilitation.

BEIJING -- Imagine a robotic hand that coordinates its palm and fingers with human-like precision -- not only grasping objects with perfect stability but also "feeling ... dramatically improving its ...

A new study finds that the learning sequence (curriculum) matters more than tactile feedback for robotic hands mastering ...

How does a robotic arm or a prosthetic hand learn a complex task like grasping and rotating a ball? The challenge for the human, prosthetic or robotic ...

How does a robotic arm or a prosthetic hand learn a complex task like grasping and rotating a ball? In a paper in the journal Science Advances, researchers address the classic “nature versus nurture” ...

The object at hand is a cane — slender yet strong, gleaming black, its handle widely arched to fit a big hand. The perfect accessory for a man with gracefully silvered hair, strikingly black ...

The i-LIMB hand, made by Touch Bionics of Livingston, was in 2007 the world's first commercially available bionic hand to have five individually powered fingers. The motion of the fingers is ...