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The body bionic

Where prosthetics were once passive, lifeless devices designed to do little more than disguise disability, a new generation of bionic creations is restoring natural movement, and sometimes improving on it.

Cutting-edge technology is helping the blind to see, letting paralyzed people walk and enabling people to control robotic limbs with their thoughts. Welcome to the bionic age.

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