The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first prosthetic arm that responds to muscle contractions and gives users a new level of dexterity. Developed under a Defense Advanced Research ...

Humans have been building prosthetics for millennia; the oldest known artificial limb is the "Cairo Toe," discovered in the tomb of a wealthy Egyptian noblewoman and thought to date to 950 BC. By the ...

David Dorrance invented the split hook in 1912, a prosthetic device allowing people missing an arm to pick up things. For more than a century, the split hook was the… ...

DARPA's Revolutionizing Prosthetics program, which aimed to gain U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for a "prosthetic upper limb with near-natural control mechanisms," has been successful.