Watch: With a new surgical intervention and a prosthesis that is fully driven by the user’s own nervous system, patients with amputations below the knee demonstrated a more natural walking gait and improved sense of control over the prosthetic limb. They also walked faster, avoided obstacles more easily, and climbed stairs more naturally than people with a traditional amputation, while reporting less pain and muscular atrophy. The study was conducted by researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's

A woman has become the first human to receive a robotic limb fused with both her nervous and skeletal systems — and she’s being dubbed the “real bionic woman.” | New York Post Health & Parenting