The hand might seem, at first glance, a more interesting bit of our anatomy but, as foot surgeon Kartik Hariharan showed, the foot is equally complex.

What do you get when you mix rigid and elastic polymers with a laser-scanning 3D printing technique? If you are researchers at ETH Zurich, you get robot hands with bones, ligaments, and tendons. In… ...

People often fracture or break the bones in their hands or wrists after traumatic injuries. Fractures can cause pain and swelling around the injury. Fractures can also change the position of your ...

A team of researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and US-based startup Inkbit have figured out a way to 3D print the world’s first robotic hand with an internal ...

The human skeletal system consists of all of the bones, cartilage, tendons, and ligaments in the body. Altogether, the skeleton makes up about 20 percent of a person’s body weight. An adult’s ...

Researchers have successfully created a robotic hand with bones, ligaments and tendons using 3D printing for the first time. A team from ETH Zurich in Switzerland were able to accomplish the ...

The carpometacarpal (CMC) joint is where the metacarpal meets the carpal, or wrist, bones. This joint allows people to the thumb away from and towards the hand.

These early humans were thought to be the first stone toolmakers; their hand bones had external features similar to those seen in modern humans. Scientists have clear evidence of stone tool use as ...

Books Received Published: 02 December 1920 The Principles of Anatomy as Seen in the Hand W. W. Nature 106, 432–433 (1920) Cite this article ...