Bionic Engineering

Recent advances in robotics technology make it possible to create prosthetics that can duplicate the natural movement of human legs....

Our ability to grasp and manipulate objects relies on feedback from our sense of touch. Without these signals from the...

Last summer, in a Harvard robotics laboratory, an insect took flight. Half the size of a paper clip, weighing less...

Other researchers are developing prosthetic skin which might wrap around a bionic limb and feed back sensory information to the...

On the grand scale of things, we know so very little about the brain. Our thick-headedness isn’t quite cosmological in...

Claudia Mitchell, who lives in Ellicott City, is the fourth person — and first woman — to receive a “bionic”...