“Someone wakes up and says, ‘Oh my God, I don’t have a leg. What does that even mean?” asks Sengeh, creator of the Human Bionic Project, a tool that logs the progress of replacement body parts that ...
Watching Star Wars recently, I got to thinking about Luke Skywalker's bionic hand. As robots become increasingly dexterous and tactile sensors become smaller and more capable, the essential components ...
"This tactile technology opens up a non-optical way for the nondestructive testing of the human body and flexible electronics," says Luo. "Next, we want to develop the bionic finger’s capacity for ...
An international research team involving scientists from Italy, Australia, Sweden, and the United States has made a remarkable breakthrough in bionic arm technology. Their pioneering work has led to ...
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: ...
JERUSALEM (CBS/AP) Will robotic pants one day help the paralyzed walk? Well actually, they already exist, thanks to Amit Goffer, an Isreali entrepreneur, who refused to take his paralysis sitting down ...
Microprocessors are being used to replace and renew body parts thus creating bionic limbs, functions and systems. The use of microprocessors in prosthesis has created appendages that can “literally” ...
"Micro-machines for the human body: Researchers adapt microscopic technology for bionic body parts and other medical devices." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2013 / 08 / ...
IEEE, the industry trade mag for gigantic nerds, has this cool Flash demo of what a bionic body shop of the future would look like. Just pick out the parts of your body you’d want to enhance-hand, leg ...
While many companies are looking at ways to make us live longer, and perhaps even forever, one startup has a different approach to immortality: turning people into cyborgs instead. Humai, Inc. is ...
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HERMOSA BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- The Bionic Body gym in Hermosa Beach is using resistance bands in a creative new way to give people across all fitness levels dynamic workouts. "The Biggest Loser" ...