Scientists say future of prosthetic hand may be not in motors, but in wires that can ‘remember’ their shape, and they're experimenting with memory alloy muscles ...

Takeuchi led a research team that built a full-size, 18 centimeter-long biohybrid human-like hand with all five fingers driven by lab-grown human muscles. Keeping the muscles alive ...

For this month’s community classroom, Pre-K teacher Anita Agan noticed a lot of students have problems with strength in their hands ...

Muscle Implants Could Allow Mind-Controlled Prosthetics—No Brain Surgery Required. ... He could open and close the hand, but not do much else. He tried other robotic arms over the years, ...

Rendulic eats a steak while receiving spinal cord stimulation to activate her arm and hand muscles. Photograph: Tim Betler/UPMC/Pitt Health Sciences.

Scientists in Japan have developed a robotic hand eerily reminiscent of The Terminator. The innovation marks a major step toward realistic prosthetics, moving us closer to sci-fi-style robotic limbs.

• Hammer curls build arm and hand muscles needed for daily activities that require lifting, holding, and carrying, such as caring for children and performing household tasks and yard work.

Lucy and her fellow australopithecines may have created and used tools more than 3 million years ago, a new study of hand muscles suggests. The finding provides further evidence that tool use ...