When electrician Rickard Normark lost his left arm after an electric shock at work in 2011, he thought he had no other option than to endure the pain and discomfort of a conventional prosthesis. It ...

Combine a mechanical arm with a miniature rocket motor: The result is a prosthetic device that is the closest thing yet to a bionic arm. A prototype of this radical design has been successfully ...

Benjamin Choi developed a low-cost robotic arm. Credit: Society for Science Artificial limb technology has come a long way since the first prosthetic—a big toe made of wood and leather developed in ...