Clarifying Ripley’s BION: Peng Shulin

Every once in a while, the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not daily comic-feature page of the newspaper has an item on it that doesn’t really provide much details, and I want to learn a skosh more. Here is the feature in question, remarking about an Asian dude who was pretty much cut in two and has been given robot legs. The picture looked to me like whatever he was holding onto maybe had some function of moving the legs (and thus not being what I’d consider “true” robot legs), but after looking at a few other clarifying articles, I see they are just parallel bars used as assistance. Neat =D