Center for Bionic Medicine

Selected News about CBM

2013

• Bionic Arm Means One Less Battle for Wounded Warrior, ABC News, February 27, 2013.

2012

• Thinking his way to the top: Amputee uses thought-controlled bionic leg to climb 103 flights of stairs to top of skyscraper, The Mail Online, November 5, 2012.
• SkyRise Chicago, ABC7 Chicago News, WLS-TV/DT, November 3, 2012.
• Man with the first thought-controlled bionic leg to climb Chicago skyscraper, Medical Daily, November 1, 2012.
• Stair-climbing amputee to test drive bionic leg all the way to the top of Chicago skyscraper, National Post, October 31, 2012.
• RIC Exoskeleton Research, WGN Medical Watch, September 18, 2012.

2011

• Minds, Machines Merge to Offer New Hope for Overcoming Impairments, PBS NewsHour, June 28, 2011.
• Brain-controlled limb to take prosthetics a step forward, researchers hope, Chicago Tribune, April 19, 2011.
• Bionics, National Geographic, January 2011.

2010

• Rewiring nerves: How to rewire the nervous system, The Economist, September 2, 2010.

2009

• Prosthetic Limb Advance, with Ira Flatow, Science Friday, broadcast February 13, 2009.
• In New Procedure, Artificial Arm Listens to Brain, By Pam Belluck, The New York Times, February 10, 2009.

2008

• Rebuilding Bryan Anderson, By Brian Mockenhaupt, Esquire Magazine , March 2008.

2007

• Re-Wiring the Sense of Touch, By Stephanie Lecci, Voice of America, December 11, 2007.
• Re-Wiring the Sense of Touch, with Ira Flatow, Science Friday, broadcast November 30, 2007.
• Thinking Makes It So: Science Extends Reach Of Prosthetic Arms  ScienceDaily, November 12, 2007.
• Muscle Memory, The next generation in bionic prostheses, By Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, July 30, 2007.
• Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 Team Delivers First DARPA Limb Prototype, The New York Times, April 30, 2007.
• Woman with bionic arm regains sense of touch, By Aria Pearson, NewScientistTech, February 2, 2007.

2006

• Robot science in reach for humans, By Matthew Knight for CNN, November 18, 2006.
• Amazing Medical Breakthroughs: The First Bionic Woman, The Oprah Winfrey Show, November 13, 2006.
• New bionic arm is almost like the real thing, By Ronald Kotulak, Chicago Tribune, September 14, 2006.
• For 1^st Woman With Bionic Arm, a New Life Is Within Reach, By David Brown, The Washington Post, September 14, 2006.
• Meet the $4 million woman, By Robert Davis, USA Today, September 14, 2006.
• ‘Bionic Woman’ debuts in Chicago, By Sylvia Perez for ABC Chicago, September 14, 2006.
• Double amputee uses thought-controlled arm, September 14, 2006.
• The Bionic Man, By Martha Brant, Newsweek, June 26, 2006.
• Neuro-Controlled Bionic Arm Named 'Best of America', Reader's Digest, April, 2006. 
• Jesse Sullivan powers robotic arm with his mind, By Keith Oppenheim, CNN.com, March 22, 2006.

2005

• "Creating a Smart Arm: Todd Kuiken Has Given One Patient the World’s First Mind-Controlled Robotic Limb," By Dan Ferber, Popular Science, December 2005.
• "A Toast to the Bionic Man: Jesse Sullivan test-drives a brain-powered artificial arm", By Nicole Dyer, Popular Science, September 2005.
• Bionic Arms Replace Lost Limbs, CBS News, Chicago, September  14, 2005.
• "The Bionic Man"  By Suzanne Sataline, The Boston Globe, July 31, 2005.
• Bionic arm 'transformed my life', By Jane Elliott, BBC News health reporter, July 10, 2005. 
• Man With $6 Million 'Bionic' Arm, Good Morning, America, ABC News, June 30, 2005.

2003

• A NewsHour with Jim Lehrer report on Jessie Sullivan, By Tom Bearden, November 18, 2003.
• Brain waves drive man's bionic arm, CNN.com/Health, September 25, 2003.