Thanks to recent research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), amputees could soon regain the sensation of walking naturally thanks to a bionic leg controlled by their own brain.

[Radek] from Poland sent in a neat video of a bionic prosthetic leg he made for one of his patients. Even though [Radek] says it’s a ‘prototype of a prototype,’ we’d have to agree with ...

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 ...

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 ...