When he was about seven years old Aadeel Akhtar visited Pakistan with his parents, who were born there, and observed something he’d never seen in his hometown of Chicago—a girl around his age missing ...

So many iconic characters in science fiction and comics have bionic limbs. From the Winter Soldier to Luke Skywalker and Imperator Furiosa. But what if bionic limbs existed outside of science fiction ...

BOSTON, Oct. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In early September, a young boy named Ma received a brand-new hand — a mini version of the BrainCo Intelligent Bionic Hand. Born with a congenital limb difference ...

Researchers have built a prosthetic hand that, with the help of artificial intelligence, can act a lot more like a natural one. The key is to have the hand recognize when the user wants to do ...

Thanks to major advances in artificial intelligence and robotics, scientists and manufacturers can now offer wearers of bionic limbs devices that redefine what it means to use a prosthesis. A couple ...

Engineers at the University of Utah have given a bionic hand a mind of its own. By equipping a commercial prosthetic with pressure and proximity sensors and training an AI neural network on natural ...

Bionic arms are beginning to tap into nerve signals that linger long after a limb is gone, turning the ghost of movement into real, controllable action. Instead of relying on crude muscle twitches or ...

Scientists are using artificial intelligence to help bionic limbs act more like natural ones. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on an experimental hand that shares control with the user to carry out tricky ...

Sensors and artificial intelligence help a prosthetic hand act more like a natural one, new research shows. Amputees often feel disconnected from their bionic hands. AI could bridge the gap ...