A rumor that users circulated online in April 2025 claimed tech billionaire Elon Musk provided a "huge donation" to fund robotic legs for injured police dogs. Many of the Facebook pages and profiles ...

Imagine slipping on a pair of shorts that could make walking feel like a breeze, almost as if you've instantly shed 20 pounds. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, get ready to have your mind ...

Imagine a future in which people with disabilities can walk on their own, thanks to robotic legs. A new project from Northern Arizona University is accelerating that future with an open-source robotic ...

On Oct. 2, 2021, firefighter Brad Henke had just returned from Louisiana, where he and other volunteers from Belleville’s East Side Fire District were doing cleanup after Hurricane Ida. He’d only been ...

A man who was horrifically cut in half by a forklift has given an update on the prospect of being able to walk again with robotic legs. Loren Schauers, an inspiring figure online, suffered ...

“That gave me hope. Something to go on.” In the spring of 2010, he read about a new type of prosthesis being developed by Hugh Herr, head of the biomechatronics group at MIT’s Media Lab. Herr himself ...

Robots don’t stroll, at least not in science fiction movies. They more often than not lumber or, in the case of C-3PO, shuffle. But thanks to scientists at the University of Arizona, you might one day ...

(Left to right) Patty, Brad and Zooey Blanchard pose outside of East Side Fire District firehouse in Belleville. Brad Blanchard used to work out of the firehouse before he was paralyzed in a ...