A laboratory in the Argentine farm province of Santa Fe has developed what it calls the first prosthetic arm in Latin America to use sensors to ... are generated by the muscles at the point ...

Arduino-like electronics, a couple of electromyography sensors to detect muscle movements, and a pair of Nerf Swarmfire blasters whose round design made them perfect for this hack—although ...

He hit a propeller, and his arm was severed in the water. A year later, he got a myoelectric arm, a type of prosthetic powered ... a wearable version of its muscle sensor before it can implant ...

Staff Sgt. James Sides is a Marine veteran who lost most of his right forearm in an explosion in Afghanistan on July 15, 2012. As he tells it, Sides had to deactivate an improvised explosive ...

Watch Dean Kamen’s Prosthetic ‘Luke’ Arm Be Awesome at the Grocery Store The user controls the DEKA arm by contracting different muscles in the arm or foot. Electromyogram sensors pick up ...

When the person thinks about moving a finger, a small patch of muscle on the upper arm moves instead. These movements are detected by sophisticated sensors ... item using her prosthetic thumb ...

According to the company, Hero Arm's muscle sensors enable lifelike precision and multiple grips. Motors allow for haptic feedback and beepers and lights provide other notifications to the wearer.

The team showed how the sensor could be used to control a robot arm, and hope that the device will one day be able to control prosthetic limbs using residual muscle.

It says a lot about how far prosthetics have to go that something developed over a century ago is still so widely used. The DEKA Arm is aimed at aiding those who are using muscle-powered ...

Like most commercial prosthetics, Barnes’ old one has electromyogram censors attached to muscles to communicate how the arm should move. The problem, however, is that “EMG sensors aren’t ...