Back in 1974, astronaut Steve Austin, gravely injured in a crash, was given a new arm, two new legs and one new eye in the iconic show The Six Million Dollar Man. But what would such cyborg reconstruction cost today?

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Miniature robots could be good spies, but researchers now are experimenting with insect cyborgs or "cybugs" that could work even better.

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Dr. Tiller: Let's Not Make Him a Martyr

Blame for Dr. Tiller's murder is flying around like the sands of a Mojave dust storm most of it is hyper and unreasonable and it is begging for some legitimate balance. Is there any?

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Amputees and people with difficulty standing could soon move using a 'wearable transportation device' that gives the effect of walking.

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Take a close look at that picture. There's no camera trickery going on, and no special effects; that man really does have an LED implanted in his right eye socket. And that's only the beginning.

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Rejoice America GOP predicts Doomsday A sign from Above

Hi America, Our prays have been answer, Now I'm not one to worry about things, but this economy and deficit had me worried a little , so I prayed for a sign.

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The blind can see, the mute can speak, and paraplegics can open their own email -- welcome to the brave new world of neural interface. I personally thought it could never be done, but the reality is, it's reality.

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AFTER buttoning up a lab coat, snapping on surgical gloves and spraying them with alcohol, I am deemed sanitary enough to view a robot's control system up close. Without such precautions, any fungal spores on my skin could infect it. "We've had that happen.

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An electronic eye that works like the real thing foreshadows the development of a new generation of bionic eyes and other "cyborg" technology seen in the film "Terminator" and other Hollywood sci-fi movies.

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As the costs of imperialist war skyrocket, securocrats find themselves under the gun so to speak, of corporate and Pentagon masters demanding "results."

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These days, six mil might not even buy a finger. Here's a look at some pop culture icons - what they went for back in the day, and how much they might cost now. Steve Austin - 1974

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Flying had a strange effect on the great aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh, leading him to team up with a French surgeon and embark on a quest for ever-lasting life...

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The Army's exoskeleton research dates to 1995, but has yet to yield practical suits. Sarcos' technology sufficiently impressed Raytheon Co., however, that the Waltham, Massachusetts-based defense contractor bought Sarcos' robotics business last November.

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The prospect of slipping into a robotic exoskeleton that could enhance strength, keep the body active while recovering from an injury or even serve as a prosthetic limb has great appeal.

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...a simple circuit element that they believe will make it possible to build tiny powerful computers that could imitate biological functions.

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Insects with modified body structures and embedded micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) have survived to adulthood in a US Defense Advanced Reseach Projects Agency (DARPA) programme.

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Researchers at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have developed an exoskeleton for farmers. The idea is to assist the aging Japanese farmers in their daily routine by giving them greater strength to complete their work, much of which is manual labor.

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In a stunning video demonstrating advances in the functionality of brain machine interfaces, a monkey used a robotic hand to reach for a piece of apple, grabbed it, brought it to his mouth, ate it, and then licked the hand for good measure; he did all this with the power of his m …

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MIT develops brain-to-machine algorithm

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The problem of devising linear actuators for autonomous robots is an interesting one. Several artificial substitutes for muscle have been devised and tested.

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Tissue- and bio-engineering promise some of the biggest breakthroughs science and engineering will deliver in the next few years.

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Cloning may still be a few years away, but in Cyborg Babies: from Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots, a collection of essays edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd and Joseph Dumit (Routledge, 1998), we see how technology is increasingly intervening in every aspect of birth and child rearing.

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Heat-resistant. Cold-proof. Tireless. Tomorrow's soldiers are just like today's — only better. Inside the Pentagon's human enhancement project.

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You can't accuse this robot of not having any heart.

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Transhumanists tend to take a longer-than-average view of technological progress, looking not just five or ten years into the future but twenty years, thirty years, and beyond.

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