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 ...

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?

Hugh Herr, a Lancaster native and biophysicist specializing in innovative brain-controlled robot limbs, was featured in “Augmented," a Nova PBS documentary special that premiered on Feb. 23. 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 ...

Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode Augmenting Humans. 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 ...

(CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) — Biophysicist Hugh Herr was a climbing prodigy. He would spend summers with his Mennonite family from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in far-flung destinations across the United States, ...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts ‒ Leg amputations haven't changed much in a very long time. Civil War-era textbooks describing them look pretty similar to contemporary ones, said Dr. Matthew Carty, a staff ...

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 ...

Not many medical-device entrepreneurs test out their products on themselves. But after losing both of his legs below the knee 27 years ago, Hugh Herr of iWalk Inc. has become the ideal subject for his ...

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 end disability and also extend our physical potential.