While the work is often attributed solely to sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd, she led a team of artists to create these realistic ...

Then, prosthetics were adopted for the purpose of ... looks (though Qualley later revealed that the prosthetics caused her skin damage that took a year to recover). While materials such as latex ...

Touch Bionics make realistic prosthetic skins, which can be used for passive and bionic limbs. The skins are called "living skin" and are made from silicon. Watch as the company showcase the ...

Combining two different kinds of signals could help engineers build prosthetic limbs that better reproduce natural movements, ...

Combining two different kinds of signals could help engineers build prosthetic limbs that better reproduce natural movements, according to a new study. A combination of electromyography and force ...

She matches the shape and color of a person's existing nails, too. People can even use nail polish on their prosthetic nails. Here, she is inserting nails into a prosthetic foot. The person who ...

Dream Skin also integrates a special micro-coating that prevents most permanent stains and helps clothing slide easily over the prosthesis when dressing.

Such elaborate prosthetics, often made possible by materials ... researchers have created realistic, skin-like replicas made ...

Claire chatted to Miranda Lowther from the University of Bristol about soft, sensitive electronic skin for prosthetic limbs.

They create the base like any other prosthetic piece. First, they cast it in silicone for skin-like translucency, with hairs punched in for realism. They created the hand and forearm together ...