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

Engineers have spent decades trying to make shoes lighter, springier and more supportive. Now they are adding something far ...

Sports rehab research at Loughborough University is turning fantasy into reality with the aim of supercharging recovery and making treatments more widely available ...

After going blind two years ago, this woman received a bionic eye implant. — -- A Honolulu woman who went blind two years ago will soon be able to see again thanks to her new bionic eye. Surgeons ...

The compound eyes of the humble fruit fly are a marvel of nature. They are wide-angle and can process visual information ...

BIONICS FOR BLINDNESS. Think exceptional sight would be a cool superpower? You’re in luck: Researchers from the University of Minnesota have built a bionic eye prototype that could restore sight to ...

Some 1.6 million people in the U.S. live with limb loss, according to a 2008 study, and that number could more than double by 2050. Modern prostheses enable replacements of limbs lost to injury or ...

It was love again at first sight. — -- It was love again at first sight for a man who went blind 10 years ago. Allen Zderad, a 68-year-old retiree from Minnesota, saw his wife for the first time ...