A 32-year-old man who lost his leg below the knee after a motorcycle accident four years ago now has a robotic prosthesis he can control with his mind, according to a new report of his case. While ...

Zac Vawter, a 31-year-old software engineer from Seattle, Washington, celebrates after climbing to the top of the 103-story Willis Tower using the world's first neural-controlled Bionic leg in Chicago ...

Climbing up Willis Tower's 103 floors is an impressive feat for anyone. But for Zac Vawter it was an even more impressive feat when he climbed one of the world's tallest towers in a prosthetic leg ...

(Nanowerk News) Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) research participant Zac Vawter made history on Sunday, November 4, 2012, by climbing 103 floors of Chicago’s Willis Tower using the first ...

Modern rehabilitation medicine increasingly focuses on patient-centered and non invasive therapy approaches. The Bionic Hand ...

An invited group of 30 physicians, executives, medical researchers, lawyers and the media gathered Monday at the HealthQuake Summit in Detroit to talk about the future of medicine and how science and ...

WASHINGTON (February 17) -Todd Kuiken, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Center for Bionic Medicine and Director of Amputee Services at The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), designated the "#1 ...

Researchers unveiled the world's first thought-controlled bionic leg Sept. 25, funded through the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command's (USAMRMC) Telemedicine and Advanced Technology ...

Every six weeks or so, 32-year-old Andrew Chang flies in from California to see Dr. Todd Kuiken and his team at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. “Depending on what they need me for on the ...