The Engineering Design and Technological Development Group (DIDET), from the University of Alicante ArtefactosLAB, has once again taken a step forward in terms of social innovation with the design of ...

An extremely lightweight and portable hand exoskeleton may one day help the physically impaired with daily living. These are the hopes of EPFL scientist Luca Randazzo who is developing the exoskeleton ...

Scientists are developing a lightweight and portable hand exoskeleton that can be controlled with brainwaves. The device enhances performance of brain-machine interfaces and can restore functional ...

A team of roboticists at Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc. and the NeuroPiano Institute, in Kyoto, reports that a robotic exoskeleton strapped to the top of a piano player's hand allowed it to ...

Fast and complex multi-finger movements generated by the hand exoskeleton. Credit: Shinichi Furuya When it comes to fine-tuned motor skills like playing the piano, practice, they say, makes perfect.

Derek Wolf, right, is principal investigator of the study designing a device combining functional electrical stimulation with a passive exoskeleton device to help restore hand grasping motions. For ...

Many people who have had a stroke are left with hand impairments, affecting their independence in daily life. Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed an innovative exoskeleton that helps these ...

A robotic hand exoskeleton can help expert pianists learn to play even faster by moving their fingers for them. Robotic exoskeletons have long been used to rehabilitate people who can no longer use ...

Stroke is the most important cause of disability for adults in the EU, which affects approximately 1.1 million inhabitants each year. After a stroke, patients commonly need rehabilitation to relearn ...

A child living in Poland was the recipient of a 3D-printed hand exoskeleton that would help him to perform everyday tasks while living with spinal muscular atrophy. Spinal muscular atrophy makes it ...

This article appeared in Electronic Design and has been published here with permission. Since the First Industrial Revolution, manufacturers have used technology to make things better, faster and ...