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Osseointegrated prosthetic arm controlled via direct nerve implants
Posted on April 8, 2013 | 1 CommentEarlier this year, the lab of Dr. Rickard Branemark at Sahlgrenska University Hospital was the first to permanently implant electrodes into the nerves and muscles of an amputee in order... -
New ‘feeling’ bionic hand begins clinical trials
Posted on February 20, 2013 | 3 CommentsResearchers from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland announced the first clinical trials of an advanced new bionic hand. Unlike almost all forearm prosthetics in clinical use... -
Medical bionic implants market to be worth $17.82 billion by 2017
Posted on December 3, 2012 | 1 CommentExperts predict the global medical bionic implants market to grow by 7.1% in the next five years, and to be worth $17.82 billion by 2017. The report, “Medical Bionic Implants Market [Vision, Brain, Heart,... -
Truly brain-controlled prosthetic arm uses electrodes attached to nerves and muscles
Posted on November 28, 2012 | No CommentsA new technology developed by Swedish researchers could help amputees to control an artificial limb in a very similar way as their own biological hand or arm. The robotic prosthesis... -
Climbing 103 Floors In Under An Hour With A Bionic Leg (video)
Posted on November 6, 2012 | No CommentsFollowing last week’s news, Zac Vawter successfully became the first man to climb a skyscraper with a mind-controlled prosthetic leg when he walked up on Sunday to the top of Chicago’s landmark Willis Tower.... -
Man With Thought-Controlled Bionic Leg to Climb Chicago Tower (video)
Posted on October 31, 2012 | 2 CommentsAfter losing his right leg in a motorcycle accident, Zac Vawter, 31-year-old software engineer will put his thought-controlled bionic leg to the ultimate test on Sunday when he attempts to climb... -
Big Budget TV Documentary Builds Artificial Human Body From Bionic Parts
Posted on October 26, 2012 | No CommentsFrankenstein: Building The Bionic Human is a new science documentary, soon to be on Channel 4 in the UK, that aims to construct an artificial human from bionic body parts. The special documentary is... -
Mind-Controlled Robot Arm Project Receives ‘Breakthrough Award’ (video)
Posted on October 17, 2012 | No CommentsYou might still remember that touching moment from a year ago, when Tim Hemmes, a quadriplegic man moved a mind-controlled robot arm just with his thoughts and was able to go... -
Australia’s First Bionic Eye Implant Enables Blinds to Experience Some Vision (VIDEO)
Posted on August 30, 2012 | 2 CommentsAustralian researchers have successfully performed the first implantation of an early prototype bionic eye with 24 electrodes. A blind woman, Ms Dianne Ashworth, 54, who has serious vision loss due to an... -
Implantable Chemical Circuits to Build Computer Chips That Directly Interface With Human Cells
Posted on May 31, 2012 | 1 CommentSwedish bioelectronic engineer Klas Tybrandt has developed an implantable chemical chip that might one day control and regulate the signal paths of cells in our human body. Why is it good... -
Barack Obama Felicitates Student Project Using Emotiv EPOC and OpenVibe
Posted on February 15, 2012 | 1 CommentU.S President Barack Obama was chatting about bionic limbs in the Blue Room last week during the second annual White House Science Fair to celebrate student winners of science, technology,... -
Video: First British Soldier to Get a Bionic Arm
Posted on January 31, 2012 | No CommentsCpl Andrew Garthwaite, a British soldier injured in battle, has been fitted with a new bionic arm, as a result of a difficult surgery lasting six hours in an Austrian hospital. Soon... -
TED Video: Todd Kuiken About Bionic Prosthetics That Feel
Posted on December 8, 2011 | No CommentsSurgeon and engineer Todd Kuiken is building the most advanced prosthetic arm that connects with the human nervous system to improve motion, control and even to provide feeling. During Kuiken’s... -
Touching Moment: Palm to Palm Again by Using Bionic Arm
Posted on October 11, 2011 | No CommentsTrue, a robotic arm parked next to his wheelchair did the touching, painstakingly, palm to palm. But Tim Hemmes made that arm move just by thinking about it. For the first... -
Brain-Machine-Brain Interface (BMBI) Enables Tactile Feedback, Explores New Sensory Channel
Posted on October 5, 2011 | No CommentsIn a first ever demonstration of a two-way interaction between a primate brain and a virtual body at the Duke University Center for Neuroengineering, two monkeys learned to employ brain activity... -
Proton-Based Transistors for Future Prosthetics and Biofeedback Sensors
Posted on September 26, 2011 | No CommentsScientists at the University of Washington have built a novel transistor that uses protons, creating a key piece for devices that can communicate directly with living things. Applications in the not-so-near... -
UK Teen Chloe Holmes is the Youngest European with Bionic Hand
Posted on August 25, 2011 | No CommentsChloe Holmes is the youngest person in Europe to be fitted with bionic fingers. The 15-year-old schoolgirl lost her fingers to septicaemia as a toddler and has never been able... -
Patrick, the First Patient to Change His Real Hand to a Bionic Replacement
Posted on May 21, 2011 | No CommentsIn 2010 a 24-year-old Austrian named Patrick was the first patient in the world to choose to have his hand amputated, again by Professor Aszmann, and a bionic replacement fitted. He... -
Man Agreed to Amputate His Paralytic Hand and Get a Bionic One
Posted on May 20, 2011 | 1 CommentAn Austrian man has voluntarily had his hand amputated so he can be fitted with a bionic limb. The patient, called “Milo”, aged 26, lost the use of his right hand... -
Discovery Video of Pierpaolo Petruzziello’s Robotic Arm
Posted on April 20, 2011 | No CommentsFor today we take a look back at 2009 when Discovery Networks published a video of a man who controls a robotic hand with his mind. Pierpaolo Petruzziello’s amputated arm was...
