Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Swedish woman who lost her right hand in a farming accident more than 20 years ago has successfully been outfitted with a ...

A new "bionic spine" developed by researchers in Australia offers paralyzed patients the chance to walk again by allowing them to control their limbs through signals from the brain. In a study ...

At 29 years old, Canadian firefighter Rob Anderson lost his left arm and left leg to a harrowing helicopter crash into the side of a mountain. Although fitted with “top of the line” prosthetics for ...

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 ...

Nearly everyone has heard of the term “bionics” in movies, books or TV shows (i.e., the Six Million Dollar Man and Darth Vader). However, few people really stop to think about where the energy to ...

Nearly everyone has heard of the term "bionics" in movies, books or TV shows (i.e., the Six Million Dollar Man and Darth Vader). However, few people really stop to think about where the energy to ...