Scientists have moved closer to enabling amputees with artificial limbs to feel what they are touching. The first bionic hand that will allow the wearer to experience touch again will enter trials later this year, thanks to the …
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The First Mind-Controlled Bionic Leg Steps Into Reality
A team of scientists are getting closer to the holy grail of brain-powered prosthetics by developing the first advanced-movement prosthetic leg that communicates with the wearer’s mind.
FDA Approves First Bionic Eye
It won’t restore sight completely, but allows sight-impaired individuals to detect light and dark.
Bionic Legs Allow Paraplegics to Get Up and Walk
A robotic exoskeleton called eLEGS enables people who have been paralyzed below the waist to walk again. The technology, developed by Berkeley Bionics, is geared toward consumers — the 6 million Americans who are paralyzed, …
Monkey Brain Control: The Future of Robotic Prostheses?
File this under “the future is now:” in a series of experiments at Duke University Medical Center, researchers fitted two monkeys with electrodes in their brains and trained them to move a virtual arm across a computer screen to …
New Technology Allows Amputee to Feel Objects with Artificial Hand
European researchers have created what they believe is the first hand prosthetic implant that would allow amputees to regain the sense of touch.
Medical Breakthrough: Paraplegic Man Stands Up
After being struck by a car in 2006, Rob Summers was given a grim prognosis: paralysis from the chest down and the possibility of never walking again. But five years later, he is able to stand on his own two feet unaided — …
Coming Soon? The 100-Million-Dollar Robotic Arm
Within six months the military plans to begin implanting microchips on the surface of patients’ brains to study a prosthetic robotic arm controlled by the user’s thoughts, via the chip. The $100 million arm, which was developed …
A Microchip Restores Partial Sight to Blind Patients
In a small experiment involving 11 patients, researchers in Germany were able to restore visual ability in three blind patients by implanting a battery-powered chip behind the retina.
United’s Travel Technology Excludes the Blind, Lawsuit Alleges
For most people, touch-screen check-in kiosks at airports have transformed air travel for the better.
A Formula to Help Marathoners Avoid Hitting the Wall
When the weather turns crisp and farmer’s markets are lousy with pumpkins and apples, there’s a bounty of another sort: marathon runners.
Is Your Touch-Screen Dirtier than a Toilet Flusher?
Insert “going viral” joke here: a study conducted by Stanford researchers found that letting your friends handle your cool new touch-screen device could mean sharing more than the latest technology. You could also be passing …
