"Smart" prosthetic legs can help amputees achieve a natural walking gait, but it's done through robotic sensors and algorithms that drive the limb forward at predetermined rates. A better way would be ...

For an estimated two million people in the U.S. living with limb loss, commercial-grade prosthetics can be bulky, unintuitive, and still make everyday activities, like stepping over a sleeping cat, a ...

A commercial robotic leg could potentially benefit both higher- and lower-mobility amputees, University of Michigan ...

A robotic leg with motors that work like bike gears could let a wearer walk up stairs – which many people find impossible with unpowered prostheses. Most prostheses have no motors to actively assist ...

DICKINSON, N.D. -- Five-year-old Tyson Williams darted around Rocky Butte Park in Dickinson on Wednesday -- up the hills, through the trees and back to the playground. He was still learning to use to ...