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 complex ...

The ligament allows the hand to grasp and hold items. The ligament is located on the underside of the hand, in the space between the metacarpal bones and carpal bones. The palmar metacarpal ligament ...

3D printing has advanced so rapidly that researchers have successfully been able to mimic bones, ligaments, and tendons into a robot hand. To achieve these Westworld-reminiscent results, a team of ...

We don’t think twice about using our hands throughout the day for tasks that still thwart sophisticated robots—pouring coffee without spilling when half-awake, folding laundry without ripping delicate ...

You have thousands of ligaments and tendons in your body. Both are made of connective tissue and can be torn or overstretched, but they differ in function and are essential to proper body mechanics.

Tendons and ligaments are fibrous bands of connective tissue. The main difference is the part of the anatomy they connect to. Both tendons and ligaments play roles in stabilizing the skeleton and ...

IN CIVILIAN life, acute suppurative tenosynovitis and trauma to the joint phalanges are the most common causes of loss of flexor function in the hand. Loss of flexor function means loss of the "hook ...

Ultrasonography reveals tendon involvement in nearly 70% of the patients with hand osteoarthritis (OA), with no significant impact on hand function or pain. Tendon damage was more frequent in the ...

Among 86 patients with hand OA, 70% showed involvement of at least one tendon with ultrasound examination, compared with 9% of a control group of age- and sex-matched controls with no hand complaints, ...