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Retinal Implants Restore Partial Sight To Three Blind

Written by: Peter Murray 16 days ago

A microchip with 1,500 light sensors sits beneath the retina and stimulates neurons which project to the brain's visual cortex.

The blind really are beginning to see again. After receiving retinal implants in a trial, two people in the UK [...]

Cyborg

Robots Will Drive, Bust Through A Wall, And Make Repairs In DARPA’s New Robotics Challenge

Written by: Peter Murray 40 days ago

DARPA's Robotic Challenge, where robots will perform tasks at a simulated catastrophe site, is sure to attract humanoid robots like Petman.

Five years after the DARPA Grand Challenge robotic cars are already hitting the roads and states are preparing for their [...]

Cyborg

Ekso Bionics Sells its First Set of Robot Legs Allowing Paraplegics to Walk

Written by: Aaron Saenz 84 days ago

Ekso

Mark down February 14th, 2012 as the day when exoskeletons became an established medical therapy. Ekso Bionics, formerly Berkeley Bionics [...]

Cyborg

Scientists Use Brain Waves To Eavesdrop On What We Hear

Written by: Peter Murray 96 days ago

This X-ray/CT scan shows the placement of electrodes over the temporal lobe that scientists used to decode what the patient was hearing.

The day we can scan a person’s brain and “hear” their inner dialogue just got closer. Scientists at the University [...]

Cyborg

Petman – Finally A Robot That Looks Like Terminator (video)

Written by: Peter Murray 151 days ago

With human-like movements, PETMAN will help the military assess the performance of their chemical protection suits.

Look out cute and cuddly Nao. Get out of the way ever-attentive Asimo, a new robot’s on the march and [...]

Cyborg

Revolutionary New Brain Chip Allows Monkeys To Grasp AND Feel Objects Using Their Thoughts

Written by: Peter Murray 221 days ago

A new brain chip that allows monkeys to control a virtual hand and sense touch may be the breakthrough needed to give paralyzed patients the protheses control they need.

Scientists have created a brain implant that not only allows monkeys to control a computer with their thoughts, it also [...]

Cyborg

Injured Rat Receives Brain Chip, Can Move Again

Written by: Peter Murray 222 days ago

Scientists restored a rat's blink reflect with a brain implant that both processes sensory information and controls movement.

Meet Robo-Rat. In the latest advance in cyborg technology, scientists have replaced the dysfunctional part of a rat’s brain with [...]

Cyborg

Canadian Cyborg Documents The Reality Behind Today’s Cyborg Tech

Written by: Aaron Saenz 264 days ago

Eyeborg Deus Ex Documentary feature

Will the future be full of humans who merge with machines to become cyborgs? Ha. It’s already happened. Deus Ex: [...]

Cyborg

Why Am I Wearing This Glove? Oh, It Controls My Robot Hand, That’s All

Written by: Aaron Saenz 270 days ago

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If you’ve never thought about describing a robotic limb as sleek and sexy then you’ve never met Handroid. The latest [...]

Cyborg

Synthetic Legs, Real Athlete – Oscar Pistorius ‘The Blade Runner’ Qualifies For the Olympics

Written by: Aaron Saenz 278 days ago

Oscar Pistorius feature

One of the fastest runners in South Africa is finally going to the Olympics. Oscar Pistorius is the twenty four [...]

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Humanity Struggles With Augmentation Addiction in Mind-Blowing Deus Ex Trailer

Written by: Aaron Saenz 296 days ago

Deus Ex Human Revolution

Holy Crap, this thing is awesome. Straight from Comic Con comes one of the most amazing and enthralling video game [...]

Cyborg

In Medical First Doctors Implant Lab Grown Synthetic Trachea Into Patient

Written by: Peter Murray 317 days ago

The world's first synthetic trachea. The pink coloration is due to stem cells that have differentiated to tracheal tissue.

Regenerative medicine history was made on June 9th at Stockholm’s Karolinska University Hospital when doctors successfully gave Andemariam Beyene a [...]

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Paraplegics Walk With Exoskeleton – Exclusive Video of Berkeley Bionic’s eLegs in Action

Written by: Aaron Saenz 319 days ago

eLegs

Robotic legs may get paraplegics walking again, and in more ways than one. Exoskeleton startup Berekely Bionics has partnered with [...]

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turtles_allthewaydown

Nehopsa - As you know, science was badly burned on this subject before. It's a pretty extraordinay claim, so until they have extraordinary proof, I imagine [...]

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Bento

Well, maybe this can help :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtZTIwSIuGw I like your humor, we will see, I am an 'agnostic' concerning the Ecat. There is something, LENR is real, that's for [...]

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nehopsa

...so by now the Greeks should be repaying their national debt/saving on their energy outlays with abundance of free energy. The first commercial free energy power plant [...]