From lifelike hands to gamified nudges, how technology is reshaping the future of healthcare

Whether designing a pair of robot pants or a prosthetic limb or a healthcare app, it’s important that people feel they’re getting a personalized upgrade—not just a solution. Consider prosthetic limbs. While this century has seen huge advancements in design and functionality, the not-so-distant future will deliver individualized, customized limbs that very much resemble and function like natural limbs for people, says Jeremy Brown, an associate professor at the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.  “I think a prosthesis is sort of one of the most intimate human-robot in...