Nike's battery-powered footwear system, which propels wearers forward, is part of a broader push to help humans move farther and faster.

When The Bionic Woman premiered in 1976, it was, on paper, a spin-off of The Six Million Dollar Man, created to give Lee Majors‘ Steve Austin a female counterpart. But 50 years later, the series-and ...

The two reunited at a recent fan convention ...

Engineers have spent decades trying to make shoes lighter, springier and more supportive. Now they are adding something far more radical: propulsion. Bionic sneakers that quietly push wearers up hills ...

Sports rehab research at Loughborough University is turning fantasy into reality with the aim of supercharging recovery and making treatments more widely available ...

The compound eyes of the humble fruit fly are a marvel of nature. They are wide-angle and can process visual information ...

A newly developed bionic knee could help people with above-the-knee amputations walk and climb with greater ease than they could with a traditional prosthesis. The new prosthesis, described July 10 in ...

In a heartwarming moment captured on video, a Minnesota man was finally able to see his wife of 45 years with the aid of a bionic eye implant. Tap to view if on News app. Allen Zderad, 68, was ...

In 2011, Jeremy Schroeder was driving a four-wheeler near Sherwood, Ohio, when he crashed into a stop sign he hadn't seen as the stone path suddenly turned to asphalt. The sign left a deep gash in ...