Fergal Mackie, 28, founded of Edinburgh-based Metacarpal in 2020, which develops fully mechanical prosthetic hands.

Editor's Note: For the 36th year in a row, The Day is publishing a series of stories from May 18 to June 5 about graduating seniors in our 19 area high schools. This year we are profiling top students ...

HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — After a month of designing, 3D-printing and making modifications, a team of high school engineering students in Hendersonville, Tennessee, built a fellow student at ...

When the Students in Cal State Fullerton’s new Additive Manufacturing Engineering course were presented with the real-world task to create a prosthesis that could enhance the quality of life for a ...

News4 got a behind the scenes look at the amazing prosthetics the Vanderbilt University mechanical engineering department are developing. One man who uses a wheel chair tested an "exoskeleton," a ...

The University of Dayton offers programs for students to integrate a holistic education into meaningful action. Mechanical engineering student Clare Pitstick found her vocation in prosthetics and ...

Each year, thousands of people around the world lose a hand or finger, often due to accidents, war, natural disaster or illness. After this loss, accessing and affording traditional prosthetic devices ...

The pre-engineering instructors at McKinley High School receive all sorts of requests for help. The theater department needed a hand designing steps and a folding, movable stage for its production.

Reaching out to touch a dot on a computer screen may seem simple, but it requires a complex chain of signals that link together the eye, brain and arm. Damage to any part of that chain, such as a ...

As a kid growing up in poverty in rural Bolivia, Roly Mamani built his own toys. Now a 34-year-old engineer, he 3D prints limbs for Indigenous compatriots scarred by life-changing accidents. Mamani ...