With a small arsenal of 3D printers in his lab, he thought what a good project it would be to print a functional rubber hand ...

DURHAM, North Carolina (WTVD) -- The Helping Hands Project has spread to universities and colleges across the Triangle. Students use 3D printers to make prosthetic hands for children who need them.

A round ten years ago, fantastic media coverage of 3D printing dramatically increased expectations for the technology. A particular darling of that coverage was the use of 3D-prin ...

Slowly but surely, 3D printing machines at the University of the Virgin Islands are working to create low-cost functional prostheses for those who are missing limbs. Timothy Faley, professor of ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Some high school students in Manhattan are using their math lessons to lend a literal helping hand. They've created and built a prosthetic using a 3-D printer. It's not your ...

Early in the spring semester, Brookdale Community College professor Lisa Hailey introduced her engineering students to a 3D printer. She also offered to help anyone who had a special project in mind.

(NEW YORK) — These middle school students on Long Island, New York, are quite literally lending a helping hand. Since late November of last year, a group eighth-grade students from Howard B. Mattlin ...

A team of four Miami University undergraduate students is working to develop an affordable 3D-printed prosthetic hand that costs less than $100 and can be produced in 36 hours, addressing a shortage ...

For the disabled community, 3D printing is far more than a nerdy hobby—it can give you tailor-made tools that transform daily tasks The author, who has a disability that limits the use of her arms, ...

Extremely realistic-looking prosthetic eyes can now be 3D-printed in a fraction of the time it would normally take to produce the eyes by hand, scientists demonstrate in a new study. This 3D-printing ...

(THE CONVERSATION) To think about an artificial limb is to think about a person. It’s an object of touch and motion made to be used, one that attaches to the body and interacts with its user’s world.