“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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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.

Prosthetic body parts have been around in many shapes and forms for thousands of years. But up until just a few decades ago, they were often uncomfortable, provided little to no control for the user ...

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: ...

The Bionic Man is a 6-foot-tall robot built entirely from bionic body parts and implantable synthetic organs—complete with a functioning circulatory system. The result of billions of dollars of ...

BKC Faculty Associate Magda Romanska investigates posthuman disability studies and where the field fits in with conversations around modern technologies. "By probing the limits of human and machine ...

The typical contraction time of human muscles is between about 40 milliseconds and 80 milliseconds, thus providing sufficient headroom for the electronics to compute the optimal avoidance strategy and ...