Abstract: Sensory substitution technologies represent a significant advancement in modern prosthetics, with hybrid tactile feedback approaches gaining increasing attention. However, limited studies ...

Mwangi began in 2017 by knitting hats and scarves, then met a woman who was knitting a prosthesis. Now, in her shared tailor ...

A Kenyan woman who survived breast cancer is knitting prostheses and training others to make them in a country where silicone ones are expensive.

When Mary Mwangi got her cancer diagnosis, she imagined death would follow shortly. She did not expect that her hobby of ...

When Mary Mwangi got her cancer diagnosis, she imagined death would follow shortly. She did not expect that her hobby of knitting, which she took up while recovering, would affect the l ...

Abstract: Highly functional upper-limb prostheses have been developed to restore dexterous end-effector motion, but increased mechanical functionality often leads to greater weight, more complex ...

A Kenyan woman who survived breast cancer is knitting prostheses and training others to make them in a country where silicone ones are expensive.

May and her group of women knit and sell the products to organizations that donate to cancer survivors who cannot afford to buy them. Together, they have sold more than 600 pieces in the last three ...

When Mary Mwangi got her cancer diagnosis, she imagined death would follow shortly. Women say the affordable prostheses are a ...

First lady Melania Trump chose not to break from her own fashion tradition, channeling her official White House portrait for the first State of the Union address of President Donald Trump's second ...

A robotic arm that moves too quickly can feel creepy. One that moves too slowly feels awkward and unhelpful. In a VR study, researchers found that AI-powered prosthetic arms were best accepted when ...

In virtual reality, participants embodied an avatar whose left forearm was replaced by an autonomous prosthetic arm that flexed toward a target at different movement ...