"For everything we envision people needing or wanting to do to become independent... they really need two hands working together."

A bionic prosthesis that includes sensors that connect to residual nerves in the thigh allows amputees to feel their prosthetic foot and knee in real time.

A new e-glove can help people with prosthetic hands feel pressure and temperature, while also giving prostheses the softness and warmth of real skin.

A new electronic skin may one day give robots and prosthetic devices a sense of touch that rivals the real thing.

A new brain-computer interface ditches the invasive parts for better control over robotic arms with thoughts alone.

To find out more about how people respond to stumbling, and to eventually create better prosthetics, scientists had to trip people 190 times.

A tripod foot could make walking on hiking trails and other rough terrain more manageable for people who use a prosthetic.