Recent technological advances have opened valuable possibilities for supporting people with motor impairments or who are recovering from injuries to the brain, spinal cord or nerves. Millions of ...

Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna, in collaboration with ETH Zurich, the Technical University of Munich and Medical Faculty Belgrade, have developed a wearable neurorobotic system that ...

Fast and complex multi-finger movements generated by the hand exoskeleton. Credit: Shinichi Furuya When it comes to fine-tuned motor skills like playing the piano, practice, they say, makes perfect.

A FTER HIS hands were crushed two years ago in a machine that bends sheet metal, Remco Letschert feared he would never work ...

While most high school students are enjoying their summer vacation, a group of East Bay teens decided they would rather spend their free time in the classroom and try to perfect their latest invention ...

Working closely with users and therapists, EPFL spin-off Emovo Care has developed a light and easy-to-attach hand exoskeleton for people unable to grasp objects following a stroke or accident. The ...

An exoskeleton is intended to prepare astronauts on Earth to perform complex hand movements in zero gravity. Tests are still needed. Scientists from the German Research Center for Artificial ...