Bentley Vaughn, 16 months, is learning to walk with a prosthetic foot after a rare pregnancy complication known as twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome.

Combined with machine learning algorithms, these signals enable intuitive, real-time mind control of advanced robotic prosthetic hands,” a news release on that technology reported.

Researchers have developed a new, data-driven way of fitting prosthetic legs that could lead to better-fitting prosthetics, in less time and at a lower cost.

Cammie, a young camel whose front leg was chopped off by a landlord in Pakistan's southern province of Sindh, left her caregivers emotional as she walked for the first time on a prosthetic leg. "I ...

State-of-the-art prosthetic limbs can help people with amputations achieve a natural walking gait, but they don’t give the user full neural control over the limb. Instead, they rely on robotic ...

Jake Hanes describes how a tree cutting accident on May 1 made him a double amputee. At top, Jake uses his grandmother’s walker as he gets used to his prosthetic legs. Photos by Roger Werth, The ...