Although it isn’t yet common to see somebody walking around with extra robotic appendages like Doctor Octopus, that may change soon. Numerous researchers are working on robotic limbs that augment the ...

Can you imagine having an extra thumb on your hand that you can control in just one minute? Researchers from Cambridge University have created exactly that: a ...

It sounds like a sci-fi plot, but a world first could pave the way for cyborg-like additions to our bodies in the future. British scientists found that using a prosthetic 'third thumb' can force the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cambridge Scientists Devise Robotic Extra 'Third Thumb' You Can Work As Extra Digit. You could soon have an extra thumb on your ...

UCL researchers have created a strange robotic "third thumb" that attaches to the hand and adds a large extra digit on the opposite side of the hand from the thumb. Researchers found that using the ...

Having an extra thumb on one hand may boost your manual dexterity, but wouldn't it be hard to learn to use? Not according to a new study, which found that the majority of a wide variety of people got ...

You're holding your phone over your head to scroll through Facebook before you go to bed and the inevitable happens — you drop your phone on your face before falling asleep in shame. Not anymore, ...

From the war machines in Edge of Tomorrow to the black market adaptation of Elysium to the classic power loader in Aliens, exoskeletons loom large in cinema. And they’re far from science fiction — ...

Our opposable thumbs are what make us the dominant primates we are. And if two thumbs helped us climb to the top of the evolutionary ladder, what else would we be able to accomplish with even an extra ...