A speech prosthetic developed by a collaborative team of Duke neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, and engineers can translate a person's brain signals into what they're trying to say. Appearing Nov. 6 in ...

The ceremonial opening kick of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Sao Paolo, Brazil, which was performed—with the help of a brain-controlled exo-skeleton—by a local teen who had been paralyzed from the waste ...

Loss of communication is not uncommon in patients suffering from debilitating neurodegenerative diseases like ALS and clinical locked-in syndromes. One solution to restore communication involves ...

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Researchers are paving the way for the design of bionic limbs that feel natural to users. They demonstrate the connection between hand movement patterns and motoneuron control patterns. The study, ...

The use of brain computer interface has the potential to improve the daily lives of people with prosthetic limbs, according to research presented this week at the Association of Academic Physiatrists ...

Benjamin Choi developed a low-cost robotic arm. Credit: Society for Science Artificial limb technology has come a long way since the first prosthetic—a big toe made of wood and leather developed in ...

Prosthetics may no longer be limited to external limbs, if the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s project to restore memories lost from traumatic brain injury (TBI) gets positive results. The ...

This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Scott Pelley reports on innovations in the technology of prosthetics. It is a subject he has been following on the broadcast for more than a decade. To mark the ...