The robotics students began by studying Samantha’s condition and limitations. IMAHelps volunteers in Ecuador provided photos and video of Samantha, along with her measurements. Team members then ...

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Ten years ago, Easton LaChappelle was a teen watching YouTube videos in his Colorado bedroom on how to build robot arms from LEGOs. Today, he's the founder of Unlimited Tomorrow, a company that ...

Easton LaChappelle made his first robotic hand in eighth grade — a confection of electrical tubing, fishing lines, and tape made in his bedroom, watching instructional videos. The fingers could move, ...

A Utah family is hoping their insurance company will reconsider a recent decision that denied their daughter a “life-changing” new prosthetic. Remi Bateman, 9, was born without a hand below the elbow, ...

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MEDFORD TWP., New Jersey -- Sammy Salvano, 14, engineered a prosthetic hand for his friend, Ewan Kirby. Ewan is missing most of the fingers on one of his hands, so Sammy worked all summer on his ...

An amputee can feel his wife's hand using advanced prosthetic technology after signing up for an experimental research project. Brandon Prestwood lost his left hand in 2012. He was reassembling an ...

There is an epic story behind the addition of Andrey Kvasov's pilot character to War Robots. War Robots is a free-to-play multiplayer mecha-battle game on PC and mobile that you may not have heard ...

When he was 14 years old, Easton LaChappelle built a robotic hand controlled by a wireless glove using LEGOs, motors from toy airplanes, fishing line for tendons, and electrical tubing for fingers.