As the head of the MIT Media Lab Biomechatronics group, Hugh Herr is building the next generation of bionic limbs, including ones that will help... Hugh Herr: Will Humans Become Cyborgs In The Future?

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Forty years ago this year a fierce storm and a great tragedy merged high on the slopes of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. In the Nova PBS documentary “Augmented,” airing this month, you can see the ...

‘I would love to become a cyborg,” says the MIT biophysicist Hugh Herr, whose state-of-the-art prosthetic legs—and agile use of them—prompt glib suggestions that he’s a “bionic man.” What’s revealed ...

A new surgery maintains the sensation of limb control after an amputation. When paired with a bionic leg designed by MIT's Hugh Herr, amputees can... Bionic limbs can now feel 'real' thanks to new ...

BEFORE HUGH Herr became a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he was a promising rock climber. But after being trapped in a blizzard during a climb at age 17, he lost both ...

Hugh Herr is Associate Professor and leads the Biomechatronics research group at MIT's Media Lab. The focus of Hugh's work is on developing bionic limbs for amputees. Two of those bionic limbs are ...

A new brain-controlled bionic limb has the ability to help people with leg amputations more easily navigate obstacles and walk more quickly, a new study published in the journal Nature Medicine shows.

MIT researchers (from left to right) Hyungeun Song, Guillermo Herrera-Arcos, and Hugh Herr have developed the first “living” implant that uses rewired sensory nerves to revive paralyzed organs. Credit ...

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