Bionic arms for kids have a come long way from where they started 10 years ago in Central Florida. They couldn’t hold much. They were costly to make and replace for growing kids. And they didn’t have ...
At a summer camp outside of Boston, a group of children is taking part in an unprecedented test of potentially life-changing medical technology. The kids have diabetes, and they're testing a bionic ...
ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Call them the bionic kids! Researchers at the University of Central Florida have developed bionic arms for kids who are born without. Those scientists developed a ...
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Riding a bike, making a bed and picking up toys are all things on a kid's to-do list. But if you were born without an arm, those things can be very hard. Not to mention, make a child ...
Bionic hands startup Open Bionics now makes Iron Man and Elsa-themed hands and arms for the smallest of amputees – kids. Open Bionics hopes to get kids excited about their prosthetics with designs ...
ORLANDO, Fla -- Most bionic prosthetics for amputees cost at least $10,000. Pair that with a constantly growing child and most parents of children with congenital limb difference can't even consider a ...
Bionic hand prostheses have been around for a while, but the U.K.s state-funded National Health Service (NHS) wants to make them more readily available to those who need them the most. With that in ...
For children with limb absences and discrepancies, prosthetic arms can be extremely expensive, tricky to use, and, like kids’ clothes or shoes, quickly outgrown, which means that parents have to spend ...
Most bionic prosthetics for amputees cost at least $10,000. Pair that with a constantly growing child and most parents of children with congenital limb difference can’t even consider a robotic arm.
Three children are feeling pure joy this December about "the best Christmas present in the world." Ettie Baker, age 8, Zoey Hampton-Pigeon, age 8, and Finn Jarvis, age 11, were all given ...
In 2007, Eric Jones survived a bout with cancer, but complications from his treatment led doctors to amputate his right hand. He then became one of the first Americans to receive a bionic hand. He ...