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"Augmented" is a Nova PBS documentary episode that premiers Wednesday, 2/23, featuring Biomechatronics group head Hugh Herr.
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On May 2, 2022, Hugh Herr (head of the Biomechatronics research group) will be honored at the 10th Genius Gala.
Biomechatronics group head Hugh Herr speaks with Marwa ElDiwiny on a recent episode of the IEEE RAS Soft Robotics podcast.
Magnetomicrometry uses implantable magnets to track the position of muscles, potentially improving the control and efficacy of prosthetics.
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Biomechatronics head Hugh Herr discusses his research with the No Barriers USA podcast.
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You’ll likely hear Hugh Herr before you see him.The charismatic leader of MIT’s biomechatronics research group wears two next-generation pr…
"During the twilight years of this century, I believe humans will be unrecognizable in morphology and dynamics from what we are today."
LocationReddit iAmA DescriptionJoi Ito will answer questions about innovation and his new book, Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future,…
A team of Boston surgeons and scientists has developed a new approach to amputation.
Loneliness is becoming a global epidemic. As many as 33 percent of Americans report being chronically lonely, with similar percentages bein…
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Sometimes the scariest place to be is your own mind. Or Reddit at night.Shelley is an AI program that generates the beginnings of horror st…
Congratulations to the Hugh Hampton Young Fellows, including Affective Computing researcher Kristy Johnson!
The Fellowships are aimed at helping students from underrepresented backgrounds establish careers in robotics, engineering, computer science
Hernandez, J., Sano, A., Goodwin, M. S., Picard, R. W. "AMA, an application for Annotation, Monitoring, and Analysis of behavioral activity"; in the Extended Abstract of IMFAR 2012, Toronto, Canada, May 17-19, 2012.
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Tune in for the first event of the series featuring Hank Willis Thomas on September 8 at 2pm.
Political, media and technological forces have driven us into isolated, like-minded camps hostile toward outside views and ripe for the spr…
Be inspired by Rohit Prasad, SVP and Head Scientist, Alexa AI, Amazon, Tye Brady, Chief Technologist, Amazon Robotics, Dilip Kumar, VP, Phy…
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has named 19 new HHMI Investigators, including Synthetic Neurobiology head Ed Boyden.
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Anastasia Ostrowski, a PhD student in the Personal Robots group, is among five MIT PhD students honored with Amazon fellowships.
LocationRoom 3-133 DescriptionAmanda Parkes is a media designer whose work focuses on how digital technologies and smart materials can expa…
Char Stiles from Future sketches is speaking at Amant's For Your Reference in Brooklyn NYC.
Guillermo Herrera-Arcos from the Media Lab's Biomechatronics group has received two fellowships in support of his PhD.
I'm a strong advocate of more open science, and my group tries to carefully consider our moral obligations and publicly admit mistakes.
Ito shares his thoughts on the difficulty of making the right decisions in the face of what, to the public, appears to be obviously wrong.
Join us on September 14 at noon for our first Civic Lunch talk of the semester with Emily Jacobi of Digital Democracy.Digital Democracy (Dd…
John B Herrington, the first member of a federally recognized tribe to travel to space, will speak about Indigenous views of space activity.
Human 2.0 will cover the principles underlying current and future technologies for cognitive, emotional, social, and physical augmentation.
As of August 2020, Ring has active partnerships with over 1400 law enforcement agencies across the US. These partnerships allow law enforce…