Cyborg
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For the first time, neuromuscular electrodes that enable a prosthetic arm and hand to be controlled by thought have been permanently implanted into the nerves and muscles of an amputee.
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ScienceScientists have created a system for steering live cockroaches by remote control.
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ScienceResearchers at Harvard, MIT and Boston Children's Hospital are perfecting a breakthrough technique that could lead to better diagnostic devices, better drug delivery systems, and perhaps ... better cyborgs.
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ScienceA team from Clarkson University has implanted a living snail with a biofuel cell that generates electrical power from glucose and oxygen in the snail's blood.
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ScienceA group of researchers at Case Western Reserve University have created a power supply that relies just on the insect's normal feeding to power electronics attached to the insect.
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Researchers at the University of Michigan College of Engineering have developed technology that harvests an insects biological energy that could be used to power small sensors implanted on their bodies.
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The Dattoo concept involves wearable computing devices, that would be printed on the user's skin and powered by their body.
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Canadian filmmaker finds a new way to see the way we live: a miniature video camera mounted inside his prosthetic eye
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May 31, 2007 Cyborgs and bionic humans have long been the domain of science fiction with the concept popularised by the seventies TV series, Six Million Dol