Daniel Wilson wanted a prosthetic to let him ride a bike and swing a bat (and he wanted it to be red), so two engineering students found an ingenious way to make one for him. Meet Pinchy, a prosthetic ...

When electrician Rickard Normark lost his left arm after an electric shock at work in 2011, he thought he had no other option than to endure the pain and discomfort of a conventional prosthesis. It ...

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 ...

Since the early 2000s, private companies, governments, and research labs have been developing prosthesis that are a lot more advanced than previous designs. WIRED talked with Easton LaChapelle, ...