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SALT LAKE CITY — The Bionic Engineering Lab at the University of Utah is working with a prototype bionic leg and they hope it will improve the lives of amputees around the world. Kerry Finn is one of ...

The world wowed a few years ago when a very clever startup from Bristol, U.K., came up with 3D-printed bionic limbs for amputees. Uniquely, the limbs were lightweight, cheap to make and could even be ...

An engineering graduate has gone from a prototype bionic hand to pre-seed funding to produce an affordable medical device for the market in less than a year. Alt-Bionics announced Friday a $25,000 ...

For the first time, a person with an arm amputation can manipulate each finger of a bionic hand as if it was his own. Thanks to revolutionary surgical and engineering advancements that seamlessly ...

A new study shows that integrating artificial intelligence with advanced proximity and pressure sensors allows a commercial bionic hand to grasp objects in a natural, intuitive way—reducing cognitive ...

Bionics is a scientific and technical discipline that takes ideas from biological systems to design engineering systems. It is sometimes called as Biomimetics or Biomimicry. Bionics involves ...

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 ...

My challenge today was judging the 33rd Ottawa Science and Engineering Olympics. Then I thought, “Why not write a blog post?” Sadly, I was stuck in the car without my laptop, which led to the second ...

Six-year-old Alex Pring, of Groveland, Florida, reaches out for a fist-size rubber duck. Focused, his robotic milky white fingers close, and he grips the duck, raising his arm triumphantly. “I got the ...