A "build-your-own" Lego prosthetic for kids has won the top prize at an innovation summit in Paris. The customisable prosthetic - designed to be creative and fun - now holds the "Grand Prix" badge of ...

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 ...

From furniture to building repairs, Lego seems to have endless uses. Now one designer is using the small plastic blocks for yet another novel application; to improve the confidence of children living ...

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 ...

The words "prosthetics" and "fun" aren't always mentioned in the same sentence. But that's changing for a group of pint-sized amputees. Thanks to creative new prosthetic limb construction project, ...

BARCELONA-- A teenager in Spain has built a robotic prosthetic arm using LEGO bricks after being born without a right forearm due to a rare genetic condition. 19-year-old David Aguilar, who studies ...

If there’s one thing children all over the world can agree on, it’s that few things excite and affect them as much as setting eyes on a new set of Legos. These iconic building blocks bring out a kid’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘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?