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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A new bionic body part that talks to your phone, this is not science fiction, it's the next frontier in knee replacements that's arrived in Philadelphia. It's called a "smart ...

BEFORE HUGH Herr became a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he was a promising rock climber. But after being trapped in a blizzard during a climb at age 17, he lost both ...

MIT researchers have developed a new bionic knee that can help people with above-the-knee amputations walk faster, climb stairs, and avoid obstacles more easily than they could with a traditional ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- It pained James Cook to watch his grandfather hobble on arthritic, achy knees. The elderly man had undergone several surgeries, including one of the first knee replacements in the ...

You probably don’t want to lose a leg, but if you have to there are many options now that were unthinkable not long ago. That is, if you can afford them. A microprocessor knee — a prosthetic with some ...

iWalk recently announced the availability of its BiOM bionic lower limb system for above-knee amputees. The device is an ankle system that works with select microprocessor knees to restore natural ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - It pained James Cook to watch his grandfather hobble on arthritic, achy knees. The elderly man had undergone several surgeries, including one of the first knee replacements in the ...