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Student Equips Amputee Swimmers With Amazing Appendage

Prosthetic limb technology continues to advance at an astounding rate. Despite incredible developments like mind-control capabilities and super-hero implants, two -- albeit incredibly different -- areas still remain vastly underdeveloped: animal-inspired limbs and submersible prosthetic swimming equipment. Bionic paws for cats do already exist, and scientists actually fitted one double-amputee ...

Mind-Controlled Robotic Hand Now a Reality

Advances in modern science have led to several recent breakthroughs in prosthetics. From telescoping robotic arms, to homemade, shoestring-budget limbs, to runway-worthy appendage alternatives, it seems that losing a limb today isn't quite the same cataclysmic, lifestyle-altering tragedy that it was even a few years ago. Now, doctors in Rome may have just broached the next frontier in prosthesis. ...