Bentley, the golden retriever, is just a few weeks away from getting his custom prosthetic leg, lovingly designed and crafted by students from Providence Day School in Charlotte, North Carolina Ashley ...

Prosthetic legs controlled by a person's own neural system can help restore a natural walking gait, researchers found. Photo by Hugh Herr and Hyungeun Song/HealthDay News "Smart" prosthetic legs can ...

A team of researchers at North Carolina State University is developing a robotic prosthetic leg that "listens" through special sensors that interpret and respond to a patient's intent to move. A team ...

If you wanted to cover a large distance and had the world’s best sprinters at your disposal, would you have them run against each other or work together in a relay? That, in essence, is the problem ...

"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 ...