Robot appendages are increasingly hot-topic research as our androids and prosthetic limbs get better. Now roboticists from Harvard and Yale have invented a better robot finger based on one heck of an ...

If one hack that controls amputated cockroach legs this week wasn’t enough for you, we’ve got another. Earlier this week we saw two neuroscientists at Backyard Brains put on a show at a TED talk by ...

Severed cockroach legs serve as training tool for next generation of engineers working on artificial limbs. Four University of Pennsylvania juniors crowd around a pair of severed cockroach legs. Steve ...

It’s a gray December day, but inside the University of Pennsylvania’s undergraduate bioengineering laboratory, the energy is high. The smell of pizza is in the air, and students cluster around their ...

Neuroscientists [Tim Marzullo] and [Greg Gage] wanted a way to get kids interested in neuroscience. What they came up with isn’t terribly far from something found in Frankenstein’s lab; by amputating ...

In this TedTalk, we see how electrical stimulation of neurons can trigger activity in a severed cockroach leg. And lemme tell ya, this cockroach can dance. A little background may be in order. Tim ...

ATLANTA — We've all seen a cockroach run before: They're quick, nimble and frighteningly hard to catch. Now, compare that with a stick bug: halting, lumbering - slow. What does any of this have to do ...