The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM), an institution under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Science and ICT, has succeeded in developing a smart, customizable prosthetic socket ...

The latest advance in wearable robotic technology promises to solve a 200-year-old problem by revolutionizing the fit of prosthetic limbs, transforming the lives of millions of amputees worldwide. The ...

LIM Innovations, a California-based healthcare startup that has created an innovative prosthetics socket, aims to close out its first round of funding–$1.5 million–by the end of October. So far the ...

Jade Myers’ experience in Haiti several years ago helping refugees after a devastating earthquake left an impression that is inspiring her work today as a researcher in prosthetics and accessibility.

Prosthetic sockets form the critical interface between an amputee’s residual limb and the remainder of the prosthesis, governing comfort, suspension and load-transfer. Optimal socket design must ...

LIM Innovations has all the makings of a cliche startup: it was founded by a pair of surf buddies in 2012, and the company’s San Francisco office — wedged next to exactly the kind of business it is ...

WASHINGTON, June 28, 2022 – Every 30 seconds, a leg is amputated somewhere in the world due to diabetes. These patients often suffer from neuropathy, a loss of sensation in the lower extremities, and ...