When The Bionic Woman premiered in 1976, it was, on paper, a spin-off of The Six Million Dollar Man, created to give Lee Majors‘ Steve Austin a female counterpart. But 50 years later, the series-and ...

Nike's battery-powered footwear system, which propels wearers forward, is part of a broader push to help humans move farther ...

Engineers have spent decades trying to make shoes lighter, springier and more supportive. Now they are adding something far more radical: propulsion. Bionic sneakers that quietly push wearers up hills ...

Competing in her fourth Olympic Games, 36-year-old Janine Flock of Austria set the tone early with a track record (57.22 ...