When sport enthusiast Van Phillips lost his foot in a water-skiing accident, he decided to design a prosthetic leg that allowed him to keep running. In 1984, he made the first prosthetic running leg ...

When you hop, run or jump, your legs behave like springs, absorbing and returning energy with each step. But what happens to ...

Leg-sensing apparatus. A participant jumps on the spot while wearing the team's combination of sensors to provide test data ...

Well, that’s exactly what 9-year-old Ansel Meadows-Rader does. Ansel has been training on the competitive adaptive team at ...

Welcome to Refinery29’s Why I Code, a Changing Face series where we ask inspirational, tech-disrupting trailblazers in computer science 29 questions about what fuels them on and off the clock. Like ...

Kelvin Sierra lost his mother & brother to cancer, as well as one of his limbs. But he hasn't lost his spirit.

A new smart liner called Roliner lets amputees adjust prosthetic fit in real time via smartphone, easing pain and improving ...

Three weeks after her surgery, Danae was walking on her new custom prosthetic leg, created by lead prosthetist Cara Negri of ...

Prosthetic hands can cost thousands of dollars. Steven Reimer ’24 designed one for less than $300. His research will provide ...

The result was initially terrifying, with Monger undergoing a double-leg amputation as a result ... so it was important that his prosthetics fit perfectly. If they weren’t just right, he knew ...