In standard below-the-knee amputations ... Professor Herr – who lost his legs to severe frostbite during a climbing trip – claims the bionic limb lets someone perform natural movements ...

He tried to run and he got nowhere: A remotely detonated bomb had turned his right leg into ... for above-the-knee, or transfemoral, amputees. (The device had been used for below-the-knee amputees ...

Such bionic marvels will increasingly find their ... forced doctors to remove his left arm and part of his right leg below the knee. Kane is one of the youngest persons to be fitted with an ...

The 13-year-old is the world's first recipient of a bionic leg which can mimic natural growth, saving her from a minimum of six operations. When she was offered the device and told she would be a ...

Amputees given new bionic legs can walk naturally and at ... quicker and more naturally compared to seven single-leg below-knee amputees who had the traditional operations and prostheses.

An curved arrow pointing right. Dr. Hugh Herr, head of the Biomechatronics research group at the MIT Media Lab, gave us a demonstration of bionic legs at Ignition 2013. A double amputee himself ...