A research team led by Dr. Shin Hur at the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM, President Seog-Hyeon Ryu), ...

Sure, they're not quite jet boots, but these can make you go further and faster. The idea is to give a little electric assist ...

Lindsay Wagner nearly said no to her signature role as The Bionic Woman.

Scientists in Vienna and London have shown that even years after an arm amputation, detailed movement commands survive in the ...

Humanoid robotics is entering a new era—one in which machines no longer merely resemble humans, but begin to move, react and behave with a biological authenticity that once seemed the domain of ...

Cars from companies like Tesla already promise hands-free driving, but recent crashes show that today's self-driving systems can still struggle in risky, fast-changing situations.

Abstract: The flexibility and dexterity of human limbs rely on the processing of a vast quantity of signals within the sensory-motor networks in the brain and spinal cord, distilled into stimuli that ...

Abstract: The Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicle, imitating the flight of birds or insects, is a new type of aircraft with broad application value. Since its flying principle is quite different from that ...

A Styrofoam coffee cup is easy to underestimate. It weighs almost nothing and collapses under the slightest excess pressure. For most people, picking it up is effortless. For someone using a ...

The International Bionic Engineering Conference 2011 organised by Elsevier, the leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, aims to bridge the gap between ...

Researchers have built a prosthetic hand that, with the help of artificial intelligence, can act a lot more like a natural one. The key is to have the hand recognize when the user wants to do ...