WEST POINT, N.Y. (May 1, 2009) -- Sgt. 1st Class Patrick King is experimenting with a bionic foot created by Cadets Ian Jones, Sarah Goss, Joe Marshall and Jonathan Kralick as a capstone project in ...

Although there have already been birds that received strap-on artificial legs, scientists are now reporting the first successful integration of a prosthetic foot directly into a stork's residual leg ...

With Oskar Aszmann and his team at the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, MedUni Vienna has long been regarded as a world leader in bionic limb reconstruction. It was only ...

Limb replacements have become commonplace for humans who have lost a particular part of their body due to a condition or an accident. Through the years, scientists devise their plans of placing an ...

The Army is developing advanced bionic feet, thanks to a partnership between Fort Detrick and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The newest version of the Army's bionic foot helped a ...

More gadget news from the Patent Office, this time via the brainiacs at New Scientist. This new bionic foot has been patented by researchers at the Biomechatronics Lab at MIT in Cambridge, US. The ...

Florida Hospital has teamed up with REFLX Labs to see how they can improve pediatric rehabilitation and healing using bionic foot sensors. FEFLX Labs is the creator of Boogio Bionic Foot Sensors, a ...

She is sitting in the corner of a nondescript office whose outdoor sign announces, “Orthotics and Prosthetics, Rehab Engineering.” She seems out of place here, this spectacularly beautiful, willowy ...

MUSKEGON -- Climbing stairs or walking uphill just got easier for Bob Glockzin. The 62-year-old Muskegon man, who lost his left leg below the knee in a 1991 motorcycle accident, was recently fitted ...

STORY: This prototype prosthetic foot is designed to simulate the anatomy of a real human foot. :: Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Researchers think it could be a game-changer for people with limb ...

A dog born without a foot will soon become "the world's smallest bionic pet" after a procedure to fit the pooch with a prosthetic, titanium foot is completed. The chihuahua—named "Peggy Leg"—was ...