Bionics

After creating a bionic hand for himself, Peruvian engineer Enzo Romero launched a company to sell the low-cost prosthetics to others.

A spinal cord stimulator is helping a woman who was bedridden for 18 months because she fainted every time she stood up regain her mobility.

New approaches to curing blindness are heralding a future in which fewer people have to live life completely in the dark.

A robot fish that uses human heart cells to swim has put scientists one step closer to growing full-size hearts in the lab.

A new bionic pacemaker improved blood flow in animal studies by using the lungs to reintroduce lost heart rate variability.

Doctors successfully implanted a microchip in a woman's retina, restoring some vision to her blind eye.

An experimental bionic eye designed to help restore vision in people with retinal degeneration is ready for human trials.

MIT has established a new bionics research center to help people everywhere overcome the challenges of disabilities.

A new bionic arm is so intuitive, wearers think and behave like people without amputations while using it to perform everyday tasks.

Bionic arms used to cost $80,000. Now, a young engineer has lowered the cost by over 90%.