Most Americans had never heard the word bionic until the TV show “The Six Million Dollar Man” came on the air in 1974. But bionics was common decades before that, in ways that affected average people: ...

RICHMOND,Va.(WRIC)–The touring exhibit “Bionic Me” is letting visitors to the Science Museum of Virginia get up close and personal with state-of-the-art technology that is helping humans live better ...

The human fingertip is an exquisitely sensitive instrument for perceiving objects in our environment via the sense of touch. A team of Chinese scientists has mimicked the underlying perceptual ...

Monash University is taking its feat to a whole new level with its most recent announcement that opens the world to the first human trials with brain implants using its Gennaris 'Bionic Eye' ...

Researchers at the University of Utah now report a way to make that trade-off a little bit easier. By giving a bionic hand a ...

Researchers from Wuyi University in China have developed a smart bionic finger capable of subsurface tactile tomography. While previous artificial sensors could only recognize external features, the ...

What if, instead of using X-rays or ultrasound, we could use touch to image the insides of human bodies and electronic devices? In a study publishing in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science on ...

German Bionic features a new exosuit that aims to help workers carry the load in factories and plants, seeking to better their work by providing aid. Exoskeletons now are not yet that robust in ...

Through the looking glass: Warren Spector's vision of the future in Deus Ex is beginning to come to life. Scientists now have a working bionic eyeball that, at least in theory, could augment a human's ...

Exoskeleton technology has been one of the more interesting developments in the world of robotics: Instead of building machines that replace humans altogether, build hardware that humans can wear to ...

The BBC reports that a team of Australian researchers gave a small flock of sheep “exceptionally sharp eyesight” — at least for sheep — using bionic eyes surgically implanted behind their retinas. The ...