In 2018, the Loveland e-Nable group of makers delivered their first 3D-printed prosthetic arm to an 8-year-old girl in Kansas City. Now, years later, the group continues to improve their design and ...

In Guadalajara, Mexico, researchers created the E-Redi prosthetic arm, a simpler bionic limb using one muscle sensor to ...

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 ...

Around ten years ago, fantastic media coverage of 3D printing dramatically increased expectations for the technology. A particular darling of that coverage was the use of 3D-printing for prosthetic ...

3D printing has been around for much longer than you might think; almost 40 years in fact. But it's only recently that the ...

Bionic arms for kids have a come long way from where they started 10 years ago in Central Florida. They couldn’t hold much. They were costly to make and replace for growing kids. And they didn’t have ...

Without knowing anything about Irina Bird, if you list all the sporting activities she has tried – surfing, snowboarding, swimming, horseback riding, tennis, biking, kayaking – you might think, this ...

When Jade Myers of the Rochester Institute of Technology talks about the power of 3D printed prosthetic limbs, she emphasizes the ordinary but vital joys they can bring. With a new hand, you can braid ...

Britt Young, writer and lecturer at UC Berkeley, explains why 3D printing has not brought down costs of prosthetic limbs. Prosthetic limbs can be expensive, costing thousands to hundreds of thousands ...