Evelyn Bennett recently did something she had not done since November – she walked the aisles of a Wal-Mart with nothing but a shopping cart. This may not seem like much for some people, but for ...

I have been an above-knee amputee for over 50 years. For the first 30 years, my prosthesis was balsa wood with a simple mechanical knee. I fell a lot, could only walk at one fixed speed, would sweat ...

Robo-dad reporting for duty. An ex-Marine and father of one who lost an arm in Afghanistan got his power back — and then some — after receiving a custom-made, superhero-like prosthetic replacement ...

On Wednesday, Eddie Garcia walked between guard rails at the Hanger Clinic in Dallas as a prosthetic team analyzed each step to fine-tune his new microprocessor-controlled legs. Garcia was in a ...

Juniors at Shadow Ridge High School in Surprise, Ariz., use 3D printers, laser cutters, and a lot of glue to prototype ...

This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Scott Pelley reports on innovations in the technology of prosthetics. It is a subject he has been following on the broadcast for more than a decade. To mark the ...

The 10-year-old was born without half of her right arm. When Dalilah started to consider a potential prosthetic, she set her sights on the ‘Hero Arm’ by Open Bionics. “My whole life, I never really ...

Vitaliy Bondarchuk, 22, wanted to create a device that would help his younger sister Bella Bob Jones University (2) Bella Bondarchuk, 7, was born with a limb reduction defect on her left arm For his ...