Hugh Herr, the director of an M.I.T. laboratory that pursues the “merging of body and machine,” grew up in a Mennonite family outside Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He and his brothers—he was the youngest ...

An illustration showing a paralyzed individual with a spinal cord injury, implanted with intracortical electrodes in the brain. This brain-computer interface (BCI) allows the individual to control a ...

Courtney Milburn, a 24-year-old woman from tiny Rushville, Nebraska, has not walked since the car wreck that crushed her spine and nearly killed her.

After a year-long testing period, a bionic exoskeleton seems to be helping to strengthen the damaged neural connections that cause paralysis. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...