Luckily, New York City-based artist, photographer and IT engineer Paul Hodara came to the rescue and customized a 3D-printed prosthetic finger free of charge. Professors Richard Weir and Jacob ...

On Thingiverse, she’s hit a jackpot: a parametric prosthetic finger project by [Nicholas Brookins], and in no time, printed the first version in resin. The mechanics of the project are ...

After connecting on Reddit, good samaritan Paul Hodara offered a free 3D-printed prosthetic finger to Adam Cutshall, who called the gesture a “truly selfless act” Adam Cutshall was at his ...

But the one the team demonstrated in the study was attached directly to a user’s own nervous system, allowing him to individually move each prosthetic finger at will. These movements would prove ...

The most sophisticated are flexible in every joint of every finger. This technology drew from surprising places, including locks, clocks and luxury handguns. Amputees commissioned prostheses from ...

Using maxon’s motors and gearheads let UT increase speed and torque without increasing the size of the prosthetic, according to LaChapelle. When the motors reel in the tendons, the fingers or ...

Prosthetic hands have long struggled to replicate ... three critical points corresponding to the thumb, index and little fingers, effectively enhancing the user's ability to control multiple ...

Later, I will cover other studies similar to the sixth finger experiment. Prosthetic designer Dani Clode and neuroscientist Tamar Makin wanted to understand how humans will respond to having an ...

A mom who lost all her fingers to sepsis has received prosthetics - based on the hands of the trainee who made them. Louise Marshallsay had a kidney stone and went into septic shock - with eight ...