Kaylene Kau is a recent graduate of the industrial design program at the University of Washington. She built a prosthetic arm. But instead of trying to replicate the functions of a human hand, she built a functiona...

From the files of the Science Museum's History of Medicine website comes this impressive prosthetic limb, dated to the 1850-1910 period. Made from steel and brass, this unusual prosthetic arm articulates in a number of...

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and DARPA have begun testing the effectiveness of a thought-controlled artificial arm: Researchers plan to install the first system into a quadriplegic patient; while amput...

British cat Oscar lost his hind feet to a harvester. But doctors have been able to attach prosthetic replacements: In a three-hour procedure, the veterinary surgical team inserted the pegs by drilling into one of Osc...

Swedish product designer Richard Stark made this flipper for amputees who would like to use their legs more effectively while swimming. It's made so that it distributes forces to the sides, rather than the tip of th...

Actually, it's a leg covering, but I think that the artist's goal was to create the impression of a functional, steampunk-style artificial leg. deviantART user Skinz-N-Hydez made this 13-14 pound leg and his gallery...

British soldier Craig Lundberg of Walton, Merseyside, England was blinded by a by a rocket propelled grenade in Iraq in 2007. He has been fitted with a prototype BrainPort device that converts images from a video camera...

Every year, prosthetic options for amputees get better. One recent improvement is a flexible foot, currently in development at the University of Michigan. It recycles the energy of motion, making it less tiring for use...

Neatorama has featured a number of stories abo...  ...number of stories about animals who have received prosthetics before, including Beauty the Bald Eagle, who lost...

Life isn't easy for a long-legged wading bird with only one leg, but this one got help to live a relatively normal life. A stork named Dietmar has become the world's first stork with a prosthetic wooden leg. The stork is...