Businessman and father of the Ball Brothers, the 57-year-old LaVar Ball had his right foot and part of his lower right leg amputated earlier in February 2025. The amputations were done in three stages ...

Genoa (Italy), 30 October 2024: Two lower limb prosthetic prototypes developed at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT - Italian Institute of Technology) took the podium at Cybathlon 2024, the ...

A commercial robotic leg could potentially benefit both higher- and lower-mobility amputees, University of Michigan roboticists have shown for the first time. The leg provided the largest gains when ...

One year after the international Cybathlon 2024 competition, an Italian team has published a focus article in Science Robotics on the Omnia bionic leg, which took first place in the leg prosthesis ...

A new robotic prosthetic leg prototype offers a more natural gait while also being quieter and more energy efficient than other designs. The key is the use of new small and powerful motors, originally ...

A miniature donkey named Elsa is now home for the holidays after surviving a severe bone infection that resulted in the ...

LITTLE EGG HARBOR - At every high school commencement, there is some version of a speech about the twists and turns in the road ahead, facing life’s challenges, and the importance of being a good ...

MOUNT VERNON, New York (WABC) -- After a five-year-old endured a life-threatening illness, doctors gave him new tools to brighten his future. Steffon Carter started first grade at Mt Pleasant ...

Researchers have developed a new, data-driven way of fitting prosthetic legs which could lead to better fitting prosthetics, in less time and at a lower cost. The technology has been developed by ...

BELMAR - It’s a Tuesday morning at AMP’D Fitness. AmyMarie DeLuca is doing squat thrusts — 10 of them, with a 45-pound bar. The weight is beside the point for this 41-year-old Belmar resident. She’s ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The family of a young man battling bone cancer is hoping someone will come across his stolen prosthetic leg. Doctors diagnosed Atticus Root with cancer at the age of 13. The next year ...