The Animaris Ordis walk will take place even if it is raining.

Strandbeest creator Theo Jansen in conversation with Neri Oxman and Trevor Smith.

Strandbeest creator Theo Jansen in conversation with Neri Oxman and Trevor Smith.

Visiting Professor

Former HQ Administrative Assistant

People's daily lives are impacted by a great deal of dynamic environmental information, such as weather and traffic. Though most of this in…

Research Assistant

What if the taste of your toothpaste told you the weather? Leave your smart phone weather app in your pocket. Tastes Like Rain dynamically…

Chairman, New Profit; Advisory Council Member

Chang, C. "Ringing In The Rain: An Agent Based Weather Warning System"

Former Research Assistant

Bauhaus artist Paul Klee considered a line to be  one of the atomic elements of art and architecture. He famously described a line dra…

The "dream" has historically been conceived in the West as internal, entirely private, impossibly personal. This is at odds with much of th…

Tune in for the FINAL event of this fall featuring Elijah Anderson on November 17 at 2pm.

C16 Biosciences, whose founders met in the Media Lab's Revolutionary Ventures course, is producing a substitute for palm oil.

M. Popovic and A. Englehart. Angular momentum primitives for human walking: Biomechanics and control, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, vol. 2, pp. 1685–1691, 2004.

K. Endo and H. Herr. A model of muscle-tendon function in human walking, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Kobe, Japan, May 2009.

Matthew Aldrich, Akash Badshah, Brian Mayton, Nan Zhao, Joseph A. Paradiso

H.M. Herr and M. Popovic. Angular momentum in human walking, Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 211, no. 4, pp. 467-481, 2008.

Sourabh A. Niyogi, Edward H. Adelson

L. M. Mooney, E. J. Rouse and H. M. Herr. Autonomous exoskeleton reduces metabolic cost of walking, International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August. 2014.

L. M. Mooney, E. J. Rouse and H. M. Herr. Autonomous exoskeleton reduces metabolic cost of human walking, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, vol. 11, pp. 151, November. 2014

K. Endo and H. Herr. Human walking model predicts joint mechanics, electromyography and mechanical economy, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), St. Louis, MO, Oct. 2009.

M. Popovic, A. Hofmann, and H. Herr. Angular momentum regulation during human walking: Biomechanics and control, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, vol. 3, pp. 2405–2411, 2004.

Research finds Covid-19-related lockdowns led to a marked reduction in walking in lower-income areas of major metropolises.

Jinha Lee, Greg Vargas, Mason Tang, Hiroshi Ishii

K. Endo, D. Paluska, and H.M. Herr. A quasi-passive model of human leg function in level-ground walking, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Beijing, China, Oct. 2006.

Farrell, M. T. "Pattern Classification of Terrain During Amputee Walking"

Handford, Matthew L., and Manoj Srinivasan. "Sideways walking: preferred is slow, slow is optimal, and optimal is expensive." Biology letters 10.1 (2014): 20131006.

Handford, Matthew L., and Manoj Srinivasan. "Energy-optimal human walking with feedback-controlled robotic prostheses: A computational study." IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 26.9 (2018): 1773-1782.

J. J. Hu, J. E. Pratt, C.-M. Chew, H. M. Herr, and G. A. Pratt. Virtual model based adaptive dynamic control of a biped walking robot, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 337–348, Sep. 1999.

P. Krishnaswamy, E. N. Brown, H. M. Herr

We are studying the mechanical behavior of leg muscles and tendons during human walking in order to motivate the design of power-efficient …

The Rainwater Wall augments and demonstrates the natural process of rainwater collection and dispersal. It is a freestanding wall that hold…

L. M. Mooney, H. M. Herr

Tune in for the next event featuring Topher Sanders on November 10 at 2pm.

H. Herr, G. Pratt, R. Dennis, N. Rosenthal, and R. Marsh. From swimming to walking: Examples of how biology is helping us design better machines, Second International Congress on Motion Systems, Jena, Germany, Jul. 2001.

J. Hu, J. Pratt, C.-M. Chew, H. Herr, G. Pratt

H. M. Herr and A. M. Grabowski. Bionic ankle-foot prosthesis normalizes walking gait for persons with leg amputation, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, vol. 279, no. 1728, pp. 457–464, Feb. 2012.

Research Scientist

Transients occur in human walking during a transition to, from, and between steady state walking and acts as an impulse destabilizing a gai…

S. Au, J. Weber, H.M Herr

H. Geyer and H. Herr. A muscle-reflex model that encodes principles of legged mechanics produces human walking dynamics and muscle activities, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering, 2010.

E. C. Martinez-Villalpando, and H. M. Herr. Agonist-antagonist active knee prosthesis: A preliminary study in level-ground walking, Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development (JRRD), vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 361-73, 2009.

Boston.com reports on research conducted by Human Dynamics head Sandy Pentland, visiting professor Esteban Moro, and collaborators.

S. K. Au, P. Dilworth, and H. M. Herr. An ankle-foot emulation system for the study of human walking biomechanics, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Orlando, FL, pp. 2939-2945, May 2006.

Stolyarov, R. M., Burnett, G., & Herr, H. (2017). Translational Motion Tracking of Leg Joints for Enhanced Prediction of Walking Tasks. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 1-1. doi:10.1109/tbme.2017.2718528

Kevin Esvelt and Gigi Gronvall join Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinky to discuss Gain of Function research, and Covid Origin Theory.

J. Markowitz and H. Herr. Human Leg Model Predicts Muscle Forces, States, and Energetics during Walking, PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 5, no. 12, May. 2016.

Xiao Xiao, Basheer Tome, Hiroshi Ishii

L. M. Mooney, E. J. Rouse, H. M. Herr

Danielle Wood publishes "Sustainable Development Goals for Mars" in the Walker Art Center Magazine.

E. C. Martinez-Villalpando, L. M. Mooney, G. A. Elliott and H. M. Herr. Antagonistic Active Knee Prosthesis. A Metabolic Cost of Walking Comparison with a Variable-Damping Prosthetic Knee, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE, 2011.

Former Alumnus, Electronic Publishing

Excessive power consumption and dissipation of electronics with technology scaling, is a serious threat to the Information Society as well …

Former Research Assistant

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences

Former Research Assistant

Former Visiting Scholar

Former Research Affiliate

Former Postdoctoral Associate