You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Prosthetic arms don't come cheap. A grasping prosthetic can cost anywhere from around $4,000 to ...

It just got easier for kids with prosthetic limbs to go fully bionic—with a little help from Lego. A new prosthetic arm dubbed Iko can be endlessly customized with Lego pieces so that kids can make it ...

Children who find themselves missing limbs are often given prosthetic ones to replace flesh and blood, but what if a child could build and design their own Lego prosthetic arm? Called IKO, the Lego ...

Carlos Arturo Torres has designed a modular system that lets kids programme their own prosthetics – and this is only the start of toy-based body parts Children could soon see their favourite toy ...

Make as many distasteful cyborg jokes as you wish, because nothing can ruin the sheer awesomeness of a Lego-compatible prosthetic arm made specifically to educate disabled children and give them a ...

Carlos Arturo Terres Tovar has designed a prosthetic arm at Umeå University in Sweden called IKO that’s compatible with LEGO. The project seeks to encourage kids to build their own prosthetics while ...

I couldn’t imagine life without one of my limbs, my whole 41 years of life I’ve always had access to them and I’m grateful for that. But there are some in this world who aren’t so lucky. Some who have ...

First, they built the prosthetic forearms from LEGO. Then, they used them to battle on the foosball field. It was all part of the annual Biomedical Engineering Competition hosted by the University of ...

Lego is an attractive tool for biomedical engineers and scientists looking to create low cost custom mounts for their imaging equipment or looking to prototype novel prosthetic devices. We have ...

‘What if kids could ‘build’ their own prosthetics according to their own needs, while having fun?’ That was the simple ambition behind the IKO Creative Prosthetic System. Colombian designer Carlos ...

Watch Christina Stephens—a practicing occupational therapist and clinical researcher who lost her foot after a crush injury—build herself a working prosthetic leg out of Lego. Why did she do it?