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(CNN) — Amy Pietrafitta has learned to walk seven times. First was as a child and then after an industrial burn led to the amputation of her left leg in 2018. Since then, she’s had “first steps” in ...

A team of scientists are getting closer to the holy grail of brain-powered prosthetics by developing the first advanced-movement prosthetic leg that communicates with the wearer’s mind. Zac Vawter, 31 ...

Scientists are testing the the first bionic leg fully controlled by the human nervous system to demonstrate natural walking speeds and gait patterns. (CNN) — Amy Pietrafitta has learned to walk seven ...

Researchers unveiled the world’s first thought-controlled bionic leg Sept. 25, funded through the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command’s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center ...

(CNN) — When Zac Vawter put his mind to climbing the 103 floors of Chicago’s iconic Willis Tower, his legs did the rest. Even the one that isn’t human. The Seattle resident scaled the skyscraper’s ...

Zac Vawter made history this past weekend by climbing the 103-story Willis Tower in Chicago with a mind-controlled bionic leg. The robotic leg was developed by a team lead by the Rehabilitation ...

This is definitely from the future: a guy, using the power of his mind, literally, to control a bionic leg and climb a skyscraper in Chicago — all 103 floors, if you can believe it. Meet Zac Vawter, ...

If you wanted to cover a large distance and had the world’s best sprinters at your disposal, would you have them run against each other or work together in a relay? That, in essence, is the problem ...