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5-year-old [Liam] is missing parts of his right hand ... the developers, made this possible. The design is available on Thingiverse. In addition to the 3D printed parts the prosthesis uses ...

3D printing – with the promise of low-scale manufacturing and custom ... make robotic prosthetics accessible to makers, researchers, and amputees alike. Even though the mechanisms inside the ...

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 ...

Prosthetic eyes are created for each individual patient, making each one a custom work of art ... A specialist, called an ocularist, hand-paints the eye to make it look more realistic.

It has a sensor that detects weak "myoelectric signals" generated when muscles contract and converts the signals into hand movements. Most myoelectric prosthetics available in Japan are made ...

Dalilah Ruvalcaba never needed a right hand, but last summer ... The Hero Arm is a custom-made, 3-D printed prosthetic. Dalilah said she’d be able to control it by thinking of different actions ...