Bionic Engineering

A team led by Stanford University researchers has developed a wireless retinal implant that they say could restore vision five...

A research team from the University of Houston has created an algorithm that allowed a man to grasp a bottle...

Artificial hand able to respond sensitively thanks to muscles made from smart metal wires Engineers at Saarland University have taken...

Hard-wiring beetles for radio-controlled flight turns out to be a fitting way to learn more about their biology. Cyborg insect...

Wei Tang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at New Mexico State University, is taking a cue from nature...

Three Austrian men have become the first in the world to undergo a new technique called “bionic reconstruction”, enabling them...

A Colorado man made history at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) this summer when he became the...

A paralysed woman who controlled a robotic arm using just her thoughts has taken another step towards restoring her natural...

Today circuit cards are laid out like single-story towns; Futuristic architecture builds layers of logic and memory into skyscraper chips...

The bra, made using intelligent components, will be discussed at the 9th Australasian Biomechanics Conference (ABC9) at UOW from Sunday...

Touch can be a subtle sense, but it communicates quickly whether something in our hands is slipping, for example, so...

A University of Texas at Dallas professor applied robot control theory to enable powered prosthetics to dynamically respond to the...

Even before he lost his right hand to an industrial accident 4 years ago, Igor Spetic had family open his...