Through a clinical collaboration between Caltech, Keck Medicine of USC and Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, a 34-year-old paralyzed man is the first person in the world to have a ...

A man paralyzed by gunshot more than a decade ago can shake hands, drink beer and play "rock, paper, scissors" by controlling a robotic arm with his thoughts, researchers reported. Two years ago, ...

Duke University Medical Center researchers and their colleagues have tested a neural system on monkeys that enabled the animals to use their brain signals, as detected by implanted electrodes, to ...

Scientists in Pennsylvania said Monday that a 52-year-old quadriplegic was able to successfully control a robotic arm with nothing but her own thoughts, allowing her to shake hands, eat chocolate and ...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have measured neural firing in the motor cortices of two tetraplegic subjects using intracortical electrodes (electrodes implanted directly into the brain).

Many soldiers come back from the war with serious injuries, and some of them even end up losing some of their limbs. Unfortunately, even though prosthetics are becoming more and more affordable as the ...

[Ray Kampmeier] just finished writing some code to allow him to control his robotic arm using force-sensitive hand gestures! He calls it the Robo Marionette. He’s using a MeArm 4 DOF robotic arm, a ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service) -- "This is the most advanced arm in the world. This one can do anything your natural arm can do, with the exception of the Vulcan V," said Johnny Matheny, using his ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been on the hunt for a more natural way to maneuver robots in space for some time now, resulting in cool experiments like using a Leap Motion controller to ...

What if you gave a plant control of a robotic arm… and then gave that robotic arm a machete? That’s the pressing question explored by robotics artist David Bowen, the creator of an installation called ...