The first Cybathlon pushed the limits of bionic technology

Andre van Rüschen slowly climbed a five-step ramp at the end of his race. With a black processor strapped to his back and leg supports on either side of his lower limbs, he stayed focused on the body-machine coordination that was keeping him upr...

This Working Bionic Hand Is Made from a Keurig Coffee Maker

It turns out that Keurig coffee maker on your kitchen counter can be used for so much more than just making you a hot cup of joe. Just ask Evan Booth, who created Hedberg, a real working bionic hand made almost entirely out of the parts of a disassembled Keurig 2.0 K350 Coffee Maker.

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It took Evan about 200 hours to build it. Those 200 hours have been condensed into a 5-minute time-lapse that shows us all of the work he did. It isn’t the prettiest bionic hand we’ve ever seen, but it works.

It makes you wonder what other cool things you could build from a simple coffee maker. BRB. I have to go take mine apart.

[Anthony DeRosa via Laughing Squid]

Panasonic shows how its robotic suits ease your burden

If you ask Panasonic, the future is full of wearable robotic assistants... lots of them. The Japanese tech giant has posted a video highlighting all the exoskeletons and service robots it's working on, and it's clear that the company wants to bring b...

Brain-machine link helps you steer exoskeletons with your mind

Right now, mind-controlling a machine isn't pretty: you typically wear a silly cap or headset, or else subject yourself to open brain surgery to get a deeper link. Australian scientists might have a better way, though. They've developed a brain-mac...

Watch Robert Downey Jr. Presenting 3D-Printed Bionic Iron Man Arm to 7-Year-Old Kid


So Microsoft, Collective Project and Limbitless Solutions have all collaborated and they managed to make an Iron Man inspired bionic arm for a kid. They made this fully functional bionic arm with the...