Bionic

A British woman has been fitted with what's billed as the "world’s most lifelike bionic hand." The bebionic small hand is the first in Steeper's bebionic line of advanced myoelectric hands to be specially designed to fit women and teenagers.

As a taste of things to come at next month's Hannover Messe trade show in Germany, Festo has revealed three new biomimetic creations: a small colony of ants, a gripper modeled on a chameleon's tongue and some fine flyers in the shape of some big blue butterflies.

EDAG always creates a concept car demonstrating new thought for the Geneva Motor Show and the 2015 concept offers the ultimate in lightweight engineering. The "Light Cocoon" uses a weatherproof Jack Wolfskin textile stretched over a bionically-inspired trellis frame then back-lights it for effect

Italian start-up Youbionic has created a functional, myoelectric bionic hand using 3D printing and Arduino components. While still at prototype stage, the company says that its research will result in a prosthetic hand that costs a tenth or less than other models on the market.

A French startup has turned to crowdfunding to build an extremely lightweight, smartphone-controlled bionic bird could fly for over a mile on a 12-minute charge.

Bionic hands are too expensive for many amputees, such as a boy that General Electric engineer Lyman Connor met last year. Connor proceeded to design and build a low-cost bionic hand in his home workshop, which he now hopes to get to the boy, if only he can locate him.

Touch Bionics has unveiled the latest enhancements to its i-limb Ultra Revolution at OTWorld 2014 International Congress. Users can now set and assign different grips for different objects and configure the prosthetic hand via Android apps.

Just like its animal cousin, Festo's BionicKangaroo is able to store energy from the landing phase of a jump and reuse it efficiently for more jumps. The technology may hold the key to more energy-efficient machines based on both pneumatic and electric drive technologies.

A Princeton University team has successfully combined biology and electronics by means of 3D printing, creating a bionic ear that can "hear" radio waves.

Channel 4's documentary How to Build a Bionic Man reveals state-of-the-art technology that could change how humanity defines itself.

A new 'bionic' leg developed and Vanderbilt anticipates the wearer's moves.

Dressed in an outfit featuring LED lights, 17 individual lasers, and ballerina point shoes, dancer Milena would be right at home on the set of Blade Runner.