Mark Gorzen is unique among Jackson County residents. He's the only one with a bona fide bionic ankle. Gorzen, of Vandercook Lake, lost his right leg as the result of a 1999 car accident. With the ...

Researchers from ETH Zurich and a company called SensArs have developed a new interface to connect a leg prosthesis with the residual nerves left in the thigh of two patients who had an above the knee ...

Wyatt Halvorsen strode effortlessly down a hallway with a gait so even and natural that, if you didn't see it, you wouldn't know he was walking on a man-made foot and ankle -- a device so ...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts ‒ Leg amputations haven't changed much in a very long time. Civil War-era textbooks describing them look pretty similar to contemporary ones, said Dr. Matthew Carty, a staff ...

Nearly 30 years ago, Hugh Herr lost both of his legs in a climbing accident at age 17. Today, he runs the Biomechatronics group at the MIT Media... The Double Amputee Who Designs Better Limbs Hugh ...

A bionic foot with a battery pack could put the spring back in the step of people who wear leg prostheses. Prosthetics company iWalk and an MIT team have designed a bionic ankle that uses energy from ...

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May 31 (UPI) --A new surgical technique could help people with artificial legs accurately sense and control their movements. Researchers at MIT Media Lab have invented the neural interface and ...

Prosthetic limbs have evolved considerably from the rudimentary wooden appendages of just a few decades ago. They can be bionic, brain-controlled and loaded with features-- and even mimic the sense of ...

Iceland based Össur makes some of the slickest bionic limb attachments you can buy. The company's lower leg prosthetics have the ability to sense the phase of the gait and smoothly power the ...

It's virtually impossible to know Mike Sasser's left leg is a prosthetic one - after a decade of practice, he moves surely and swiftly through his busy days as a consultant and father. But when Sasser ...

Hugh Herr's legs were amputated below his knees in 1982 after a climbing accident. From his knees down to the floor, he's completely artificial. "I'm titanium, carbon, silicon, a bunch of nuts and ...