Researchers from Johns Hopkins and Drexel universities say that adding haptics—an artificial sense of touch—to upper limb prostheses reduces the mental effort required to operate the device, bringing ...

We report the use of a bone-anchored, self-contained robotic arm with both sensory and motor components over 3 to 7 years in four patients after transhumeral amputation. The implant allowed for ...

On April 13, 2004, when I was 24, I was serving in the military over in Iraq. I was on a routine convoy through central Baghdad when my Humvee was struck by a roadside bomb. It caused the vehicle to ...