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

“Someone wakes up and says, ‘Oh my God, I don’t have a leg. What does that even mean?” asks Sengeh, creator of the Human Bionic Project, a tool that logs the progress of replacement body parts that ...

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 ...

A diagram detailing the Bionic Leaf, which uses solar power and bacteria to turn carbon dioxide into food and methane fuel. (SoundBio Labs Image) Earth faces some troubling conundrums. On one front, ...

WEST POINT, N.Y. (Aug. 25, 2010) -- The Six Million Dollar Man may be a work of science fiction, but one piece of him is already becoming scientific fact. West Point Class of 2011 Cadet Elijah Bales ...

CENIT (Stuttgart, Germany) reported Feb. 20 concrete initial results in the EU’s ground-breaking Bionic Aircraft project. The results include software for automated recognition of topologically ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. Motorola has something in the works for the DROID Bionic. They are no longer using our favorite term of “soak ...

Forget turning water into wine. A new project wants to turn air into food. It’s called the Bionic Leaf, and it’s a new, almost sci-fi technology that claims to employ the power of the sun and bacteria ...

June 9, 2005 Bionics, the combination of biology and technology is a recent field of research which has nonetheless already made remarkable progress possible in different areas. Nature has provided ...