DURHAM, North Carolina (WTVD) -- The Helping Hands Project has spread to universities and colleges across the Triangle. Students use 3D printers to make prosthetic hands for children who need them.

Recent advancements in technology have revolutionized the world of assistive and medical tools, and prosthetic limbs are no exception. We've come a long way from the rigid, purely cosmetic prosthetics ...

Case Western Reserve University and the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center have received a $9.9 million grant to test a new prosthetic hand that allows amputees to again have a sense of touch.

You can probably complete an amazing number of tasks with your hands without looking at them. But if you put on gloves that muffle your sense of touch, many of those simple tasks become frustrating.

EDGEWOOD, Ky. (AP) -- An engineering class at Turkey Foot Middle School in northern Kentucky is hoping a new project will benefit a student at the school. Teacher Dwayne Humphrey says his eighth-grade ...

Prosthetic technology has created substantial improvements, yet due to its limitations in dexterity and functionality, prosthetic users have not fully been able to conduct the complex motions that ...

GLASGOW, Ky. (WBKO/Gray News) - A teacher created a 3-D printed prosthetic hand for a 4th-grade student. Red Cross Elementary School STEAM teacher Scott Johnson designed, printed and assembled the ...

In a photoshoot Kelly Knox—a British model and disability-rights advocate—poses with a prosthetic limb unlike any other. Ms Knox was born with her left arm missing from the elbow down. From the point ...

NOT. THERE WE GO. 20 YEAR OLD JUAN DIEGO IS IN HIS NEWBORN ERA. I LIKE THAT TOUCHING, GRABBING JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING. SHE’S A NATURAL. THANKS TO HIS NEW PROSTHETIC HAND. THE FIRST WEEK I GOT IT LIKE I ...

Red Cross Elementary School STEAM teacher Scott Johnson designed, printed and assembled the prosthetic hand for Jackson ...