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 ...

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

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, ...

• 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.

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.

Your thenar eminence is the soft fleshy area at the base of your thumb. The muscles here allow your thumb to text, grip objects, and carry things. Repetitive overuse of these muscles, such as from ...

Credit: X. Ren/Y. Morimoto/S. Takeuchi/Science Robotics/Cover Images Scientists in Japan have developed a robotic hand eerily reminiscent of The Terminator, using lab-grown human muscle tissue to ...