Engineers have spent decades trying to make shoes lighter, springier and more supportive. Now they are adding something far more radical: propulsion. Bionic sneakers that quietly push wearers up hills ...

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

A man who hasn’t been able to move or speak for years imagines picking up a cup and filling it with water. In response to the man’s thoughts, a robotic arm mounted on his wheelchair glides forward, ...

An illustration showing a paralyzed individual with a spinal cord injury, implanted with intracortical electrodes in the brain. This brain-computer interface (BCI) allows the individual to control a ...