“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 ...

From Tony Stark and fanciful fiction to the real-life prostheses under development in labs around the world, bionic body parts have long promised to enhance the physical capabilities of human beings.

"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 ...

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: ...

Darth Vader had bionic legs. Neo had implants installed in his neck and back. The Six Million Dollar Man had some work done. While in books and film sci-fi has come a long way in developing bionic ...

In dozens of operating rooms where they’re installing new joints, the bionic body, once science fiction, is now routine. New York's Hospital for Special Surgery replaces more than 4,000 joints every ...

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” ...

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 ...

DAYTON, Tenn. — Jesse Sullivan has two prosthetic arms, but he can climb a ladder at his house and apply a fresh coat of paint. He’s also good with a weed-whacker, bending his elbow and rotating his ...

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 ...

(TNS) -- LAS VEGAS — If you’re prone to forgetting your card key for the office or your computer password, here’s a solution: Get a microchip implanted in your hand. That’s what Brian McEvoy has done ...