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From cheap prosthetic arms for landmine victims in Sudan to the promise of surgery on astronauts in space — 3D printing is sparking a healthcare revolution.
The quest for technology to be the salvation of humankind neglects to consider some darker truths that lead to dystopia.
What if one of the most essential items in the hospital of the future is a 3D printer?
Armed forces around the world are exploring technological and biological enhancements to their soldiers. But this raises a number of serious ethical concerns, before, during and after conflict.
Programmable materials that can change shape could have all manner of potential uses.
Technology has had a particularly visible impact on the Paralympics. But the the most important thing is to let the athlete’s ability come to the fore.
The best prosthetics feel more like the real thing.
A tool in place of your arm or a stereo for your leg? How our attitudes towards human enhancement have changed.
After the Olympics and the Paralympics come the Cyberolympics – bionic men and women are coming to competitive sports.
At the nexus of medical science, engineering, computer science and 3D printing is the biofabricator, a new career for the 21st century.
Once a topic explored exclusively in science fiction, the notion of restoring sensory feelings to humans and to machines is now approaching reality. Scientists around the world are developing artificial…
Our ability to grasp and manipulate objects relies on feedback from our sense of touch. Without these signals from the hand, we would have trouble performing even the most basic activities of daily living…
A method for restoring feeling and action to amputees and others who have lost their sense of touch has been established through research published in Proceedings of National Academy of Science (PNAS…
Haptic devices - objects that stimulate the sense of touch - should be used as early as possible by people with visual prosthetics…
A synthetic material both sensitive to touch and able to heal itself quickly has been created for the first time. Engineers…
In a major upset, Alan Oliveira of Brazil beat Oscar Pistorius to win an extraordinary T43/44 200 metre race today. But did Oliveira have an unfair advantage? The 20-year-old Brazilian finished ahead of…
We all know the media is influential. We also know the media’s portrayal of disability issues and disabled people is uneven. Such biases are also evident in the portrayal of the technology employed by…
Prosthetic limbs could soon connect with patients’ nerves, allowing increased agility and even restoring a basic sense of…
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Principal Investigator, University of Chicago
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Associate Professor of History, Auburn University
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Senior Data Scientist, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor de Filosofia da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) e Professor de Filosofia do Direito, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
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Associate Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
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Professor of Surgery and Director of the Virtual Health Hub and the Remote Presence Robotic Program at the University of Saskatchewan, University of Saskatchewan
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Executive Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science and Director of the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, University of Wollongong
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Senior Lecturer in Prosthetics and Orthotics, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Graduate student, University of Chicago
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Associate Professor in Humanities, University of East Anglia