elon musk Elon Musk 's research team is teaching monkeys to play video games with their brains Thom Dunn

military France receives official go-ahead to build a legion of bionic super soldiers Thom Dunn

Engineering "Smellicopter" uses amputated moth antenna to navigate towards smells Clive Thompson

bionics People with quadriplegia use brain-computer interfaces to compete in a cyborg olympics David Pescovitz

insects The Pentagon is training an army of bomb-sniffing cyborg locusts. Thom Dunn

cyborgs Engineers design a robotic tail for people to assist with balance and movement Mark Frauenfelder

cyborgs Weed wacker achieves level 99 Mark Frauenfelder

speech Brain-computer interface successfully translates thought into synthesized speech David Pescovitz

Technology Bees wearing wireless sensors create a "living Internet of Things platform" David Pescovitz

Technology Robot that uses living muscle tissue David Pescovitz

music Amputee drummer with bionic playing arm launches Kickstarter David Pescovitz

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science fiction Fiction: Sgt. Augmento, Bruce Sterling's robots-take-our-jobs story Cory Doctorow

video games Stunning cyberpunky short film shows off Unity engine Gareth Branwyn

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