When it comes to high-tech bionic legs for amputees, all the cool stuff is titanium, carbon fiber or other, more exotic materials. With carbon fiber “blades” all the rage, it’s easy to ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a new prosthetic leg that can be controlled via brain signals, an achievement that could greatly enhance the experience of walking with a bionic limb for amputees.

An curved arrow pointing right. Dr. Hugh Herr, head of the Biomechatronics research group at the MIT Media Lab, gave us a demonstration of bionic legs at Ignition 2013. A double amputee himself ...

Amputees given new bionic legs can walk naturally and at a normal speed in a “miraculous” world-first scientific breakthrough ...

A tiny computer in the bionic leg decodes these nerve signals to help move the leg more naturally. “If you have intact biological limbs, you can walk up and down steps and not even think about it.

Developed by scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the bionic leg links the user's brain activity to nerves in important muscles controlling movement. Study author Prof Hugh Herr ...

A cat which lost both its legs in a car accident has now been able to walk again, thanks to some groundbreaking surgery by vets in Bulgaria. The cat, named Pooh, has been fitted with two bionic feet.