Steve Austin, the bionic character on the television show "The Six Million Dollar Man," was largely based on someone born in North Dakota. Bruce Peterson was an experienced NASA research pilot who was ...

Scientists have experimented with assembling artificial organs and prosthetics into one "bionic man." Dr. Bertolt Meyer, the inspiration for Smithsonian's "The Incredible Bionic Man" discusses the ...

“We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was…” starts the opening to “The Six Million Dollar Man.” That of course was just a TV show. But step by step bionic ...

Today, the idea of secret cyborgs may sound like the set-up for the villains in a sci-fi show or movie, but in the 1970s, secret cyborgs were superheroes. Starting in 1973 with The Six Million Dollar ...