A shark attack survivor now knows what it feels like to be part bionic man. Twenty-three-year-old amputee Craig Hutto became the test pilot for a state-of-the-art prosthetic leg with powered knee ...

After Hurricane Helene devastated multiple states in late September 2024, some online users shared a story of a North ...

Developed by scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the bionic leg links the user's brain activity to nerves in important muscles controlling movement. Study author Prof Hugh Herr ...

Prof Herr, is a self-described "bionic man", thanks to the robotic legs designed by his team, following a mountain climbing accident in his teens that left him as a double amputee. His legs have ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a new prosthetic leg that can be controlled via brain signals, an achievement that could greatly enhance the experience of walking with a bionic limb for amputees.

The 13-year-old is the world's first recipient of a bionic leg which can mimic natural growth, saving her from a minimum of six operations. When she was offered the device and told she would be a ...

At MIT, Herr is also working on a new advance. The recent trial of AMI-based bionic legs used electrodes on the skin to shepherd signals from muscles to the prosthetic joints. But surface ...

This week, several intrepid cyber-athletes will race to carry out routine household tasks via a computer avatar: They’ll have ...

had a bionic paw and legs, and he could run 90mph. There was rumored to be a spinoff on Max too, but it was scraped. The Six ...

An eight-year-old boy who was born with one hand has been given a Spider-Man bionic arm. Kaden Taylor had never agreed to use a prosthetic before, but changed his mind when he saw the 3D Hero Arm.

We can rebuild him! Jason is, officially Bionic, “ironically” of course, as Jason, the accident-prone, general unfortunate gobshite (to no want of his own) is now, half man, half machine. Born with a ...

While The Six Million Dollar Man might suggest otherwise ... so it’s no surprise that the kangaroo’s legs are driven by pneumatic cylinders. Pneumatics need an air supply though, so the ...