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This 3D-Printed Human Heart Can Do Everything a Real One Can
Scientists have been developing artificial hearts for quite some time now. However, many of the current designs are unfortunately clunky, which presents difficulties in successfully integrating them...
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Viktoria Modesta Is a Bionic Woman, and She Is Taking the Music Industry by...
Pop Prototype Today, Viktoria Modesta is a star on the rise in the music industry. However, her path to pop prominence has been anything but straightforward. Complications during her birth caused...
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A Bionic Pop Superstar is Going to War for Science
Ch-Ch-Changes Over the past thirty years, we've seen several artists merge pop music with high fashion, but it's not so common for a singer-songwriter to bring science and technology into the mix....
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A Stanford Neuroscientist is Working to Create Wireless Cyborg Eyes for the...
Seeing The Light For the nearly two million Americans who have degenerative eye conditions, the ability to see is anything but a guarantee. Although we can slow the progression of vision loss—for...
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Quadriplegics May Soon Be Able to Control Prosthetics with Only Their Thoughts
UC Berkeley scientists have designed a sensor smaller than a grain of rice that could one day help analyze brain data. This 'neural dust' could one day help quadriplegics control prosthetics using only...
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New Mind-Controlled Prosthetics Are Poised To Transform Humanity
Prosthetics and Mind Control According to studies presented at Neuroscience 2017, the annual gathering of the Society for Neuroscience, technology that allows prosthetics to be controlled by the human...
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New Thought-Controlled Prosthetics Restore the Sensation of Touch
Once More With Feeling Researchers from the University of Utah have developed a mind-controlled robotic hand that can simulate 100 unique touch sensations in the user's brain. The developers used a...
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The Future is Here: Six Of Today's Most Advanced, Real-Life Cyborgs
Today, people's bodies are more perfectly melded with technology than we could have imagined mere decades ago. Superhuman strength, dexterity, and senses are no longer science-fiction — they're already...
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Florida Man Becomes First Person to Live With Advanced Mind-Controlled...
Mind-Controlled Robotic Arm Prosthetics have advanced drastically in recent years. The technology's potential has even inspired many, like Elon Musk, to ask whether we may be living as "cyborgs" in the...
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Electronic Skin That Heals Could be the Future of Prosthetics, Robotics
Like Real Skin, But Better The skin is an organ that's easily taken for granted, but it actually does a great deal of work. Human skin is sensitive, able to receive varied stimuli. At the same time,...
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Have Poor Vision? Let These Super Clunky Glasses Focus Your Eyes For You
For a type of prosthetic device on which three in four American adults rely, glasses and contact lenses have changed since the progressive lens emerged in 1956. And while robotic, prosthetic arms and...
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"Synthetic Skin" Could Give Prosthesis Users a Superhuman Sense of Touch
IN THE FEELS Today's prosthetics can give people with missing limbs the ability to do almost anything — run marathons, climb mountains, you name it. But when it comes to letting those people feel what...
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A Neural Network, Connected to a Human Brain, Could Mean More Advanced...
Limb Biscuit In the future, some researchers hope people who lose the use of limbs will be able to control robotic prostheses using brain-computer interfaces — like Luke Skywalker did effortlessly in...
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Rerouting Nerves During Amputation May Reduce Phantom Limb Pain
Begone Ghost If you've never had to feel pain in a limb you no longer have, consider yourself lucky. "Phantom limb pain" is a sensation of pain and muscle tension in a limb which isn't actually...
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Doctors Wired a Prosthetic Hand Directly Into a Woman's Nerves
Sans Hand In a world first, doctors in Sweden say they've wired a prosthetic hand directly into a woman's nerves, allowing her to move its fingers with her mind and even feel tactile sensations. The...
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This Guy Hacked His Prosthetic Arm to Control Musical Instruments
Good Arm Bertolt Meyer, a professor of psychology at the Chemnitz University of Technology, was born without a lower left arm. Years ago, that might have been seen as an impediment to learning a...
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Watch a Quadriplegic Man Feed Himself With Two Bionic Arms
After living with quadriplegia for 30 years — meaning that all four of his limbs are paralyzed — Robert "Buz" Chmielewski was able to feed himself with a fork and knife thanks to a pair of...
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Watch a Robot Exoskeleton Help People Without Legs Walk Upright
A new exoskeleton can give people with leg amputations the ability to walk upright, thanks to a system that extends their residual limb into a full robotic leg. The system includes sensors and...
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Scientists Working on Third Arm You Control Using Your Brain
A third eye? How about a third arm? As detailed by researchers in a fascinating new piece for IEEE Spectrum, roboticists are endeavoring to perfect the technology that would control an "extra robotic...
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Scientists Say They're Near Augmenting Human Bodies With Extra Limbs
Is augmenting human bodies with robotic parts something we can look forward to? Scientists in a new piece from The Guardian seem to think so. "If you want an extra arm while you're cooking in the...
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