PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A medical advancement inspired by a "Star Wars" Jedi character is improving the lives of amputees thanks to its innovative range of movements. Junius Moore lost part of his arm ...

WASHINGTON, May 9 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a robotic arm for amputees that is named for the "Star Wars" character Luke Skywalker and can perform multiple, ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Edmund Rath, a 53-year-old from Austria, wants to do simple things such as brush his teeth and slice bread. Most people take such activities for granted but not Rath, who lost his ...

An international research team involving scientists from Italy, Australia, Sweden, and the United States has made a remarkable breakthrough in bionic arm technology. Their pioneering work has led to ...

Mobius Bionics and the University of Utah have built a revolutionary prosthesis that returns the sense of touch to amputees. The prosthetic is named "LUKE" in a nod to Star Wars' Luke Skywalker, who ...

A groundbreaking robotic arm developed by the University of Washington's robotics team is offering new hope to amputees and individuals with motor impairments by enabling them to feed themselves. The ...

“When I went to grab something, I could feel myself grabbing it. When I thought about moving this or that finger, it would move almost right away,” Keven Walgamott said. “I don’t know how to describe ...

The brainless zombies on the hit AMC show "The Walking Dead" seem content with their existence of merely walking nonstop until their inevitable demise. However, for one actor who played a walker, that ...

Prosthetic limbs have come a really long way from being peg legs, hooks, and whatnot. The most advanced ones right now are often imbued with advanced robotics, which offer far more function and a ...

University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers have developed a more accurate, less invasive technology that allows amputees to move a robotic arm using their brain signals instead of their muscles.

Brothers John and Ubokobong Amanam, through their company Immortal Cosmetic Art Limited, developed a prosthesis that uses electromyography (EMG) technology to enable the arm to respond to brain ...