Shattered Nerves by Victor Chase is a comprehensive and easily readable survey of the field of neural prosthetics—devices that interact with the nervous system to restore or replace lost neural ...

We’ve seen similar breakthroughs in the past, like with bionic skin that could help prosthetics feel. But this breakthrough offers an even more promising future for individuals who have lost a limb.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have come up with a better prosthetic hand that uses a hybrid design to carefully grip various objects with just the right amount of pressure. The robotic ...