Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. University of Science and Technology of China has made a fascinating development in robotics, with the octopus-inspired robotic ...

It is projected that there are more than 57 million amputees worldwide and only about 5 percent of them have access to prosthetic care and technology. Those that do have access to prostheses are often ...

When Eric first saw the prosthetic arm that two RIT engineering students designed, he was nervous about touching it, let alone wearing it. Family and friends from his village in Rwamagana, in eastern ...

Additive manufacturing can describe two technologies in food production — the more commonly known is 3D printing, which has ...

A groundbreaking medical procedure is helping an injured gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens. Gladys, an 11-year-old gorilla, broke her arm last month in a scuffle with her siblings, ...

If you are thinking of building your very own desktop robot arm and were intrigued by the project published yesterday which took you through the process of creating a mini robotic arm using Arduino.

Bionic arms used to cost more than a new car. Today, that's no longer the case. Unlimited Tomorrow is making 3D-printed prosthetics available for under $8,000 and doing it without sacrificing quality, ...

3D printing a building now takes days, not weeks.

A group of high school students in metro Detroit used a 3D printer to create a life-changing prosthetic arm for a 10-year-old ...

For Easton LaChappelle, a 19-year-old from Colorado in the United States (U.S.), the difficulty with robotics has never been the technology itself - something he says he managed to master in a matter ...

Top view of arm caps showing (left to right) the part being replaced, the unpainted 3D printed equivalent, and two colors of the final printed part. Bottom view of arm caps showing (left to right) the ...

Slow but steady growth in the use of 3D-printed concrete in construction brings in new firms and users, as the nascent industry finds the right market niches for a continually evolving technology As ...