Neuralink, the neurotechnology company co-founded by Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, has joined a clinical trial aimed at restoring vision with full or partial blindness through visual prostheses, ...

Most of us do not think twice about picking up a cup of coffee, sending a quick text or carrying groceries in from the car. For people who use prosthetic hands, though, these everyday tasks can be a ...

Ethan Krieger (He/Him) is an editor at DualShockers that got started in the writing industry by covering professional basketball for a sports network. Despite being a diehard sports fan (mainly ...

A man has lived for more than 100 days with an artificial maglev heart working inside his chest. In a landmark moment, he was discharged earlier this year, becoming the first person in the world to ...

The word “bionic” conjures sci-fi visions of humans enhanced to superhuman levels. It’s true that engineering advances such as better motors and batteries, together with modern computing, mean that ...

With the rapid pace of technological advancements, solutions to nearly every problem are within reach. One of the most significant breakthroughs is in the treatment of blindness, with researchers from ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A bionic leg driven by the body’s nervous system restores a natural walking gait much more effectively than ...

In Bionic (Netflix), the Brazil of an imagined near future is full of elite prosthesis athletes. A tech company’s brain-fluent software and custom, solid-fiber-crafted artificial limbs have created a ...

A Long Island boy born without a left hand achieved superhero status his week. Jordan Marotta, 5, became the youngest-ever recipient of a top-of-the-line bionic arm, decked out — at the youngster’s ...

As a child, Max Hodak learned to develop film in a darkroom with his grandfather who was almost blind. Hodak’s grandfather had retinitis pigmentosa, a congenital disease that affects one out of every ...