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Ronda Rousey's head coach, Edmond Tarverdyan, believes his fighter can destroy anybody in her way—including Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino (nee Santos). While Rousey transitioned into the world of MMA ...

A generation ago, getting a prosthetic limb fitted usually amounted to a having a heavy, nearly useless hunk of plastic and metal tacked onto your body. But bionic hands such as this one illustrate ...

Tomorrow's space marines wear futuristic power suits for enhanced strength when fighting alien invaders in science fiction. As a possible step toward that future, NASA and General Motors have come up ...

The BIT-UEC-Hand developed in this study consists of a hand, a controller, an EMG sensor, a battery, and a socket. The hand was developed in a joint research project between the University of ...

For all of the promises made by Apple and Google, none of their smartwatches will give you superpowers. Strap on MIT’s new wearable, though, and you can suddenly have an extra pinky, a third thumb, or ...

Imagine robotic fingers that can feel vibrations, textures, and temperatures. For those with prosthetic hands, it’s no longer a dream, it’s reality. Find out how one company is disrupting the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Treasure hunters in Switzerland have unearthed a hand-some artifact: a 3,500-year-old bronze hand ...

Even the most skilled and steady surgeons experience minute, almost imperceptible hand tremors when performing delicate tasks. Normally, these tiny motions are inconsequential, but for doctors ...