When car designers start to work on a new project, they usually begin with sketches coming from their experience or their imagination. But when Mercedes-Benz engineers begin to think about a model for ...

Bonnie Cha was a former chief correspondent for CNET Crave, covering every kind of tech toy imaginable (with a special obsession for robots and Star Wars-related stuff). When she's not scoping out ...

Now we’ll never outgrow Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots. Hammacher Schlemmer’s 6-foot-tall Bionic Bopper Cars challenge all washed-up joystick pugilists to climb in, sit down, and “duke it out” with a rival ...

The streamlined sedan is about the same size and weight of a Mercedes-Benz C-Class and has a drag coefficient of just .17, which is lower than any car on sale today including the leading Mercedes-Benz ...

Mercedes-Benz made history again last weekend. Its stunning Bionic Car completed the first official lap of one of the tracks at its Mercedes-Benz World site at Brooklands – 98 years, 4 months and 28 ...

Mercedes-Benz went fishing for a new aerodynamic and fuel efficient car design and came up with the Bionic Car. The concept vehicle is based on the boxfish, which has a bony structure that is very ...

NORTH AURORA, Ill. -- UPDATE: A bionic arm that was reported missing on Wednesday was located at a Subway sandwich shop. Sammy Luther, 16, of North Aurora, was born without his left forearm and hand.

The term "concept car" has been muddied in recent decades by vehicles barely removed from production cars. Where once cars little removed from concept vehicles were a novelty and something to ...

[Photo: Hammacher Schlemmer] You might think that the days of remote-controlled boxing robots, like the ones in Real Steel, can only be part of a far-flung future. But it just so happens that future ...

NORTH AURORA, Ill. -- Sammy Luther, 16, of North Aurora says his bionic prosthetic arm was stolen from his family's car while he was in Chicago and a reward is being offered for its return. The high ...