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Hugh Herr

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
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Brain-controlled prosthetic limbs take steps closer to reality

In a cover story, Science News highlights research from the Media Lab’s Biomechatronics group and the K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics at MIT
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Neurally Controlled Prosthesis in the News

News coverage of the neural control prosthetic from Biomechatronics group.
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Connected Mind + Body: Unlocking Women's Health through Transformative Technologies

Imagine what cutting-edge technologies can achieve in transforming women's health + wellbeing.Every day at the MIT Media Lab, we harne…
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A prosthesis driven by the nervous system helps people with amputation walk naturally

A new surgical procedure gives people more neural feedback from their residual limb. With it, seven patients walked more naturally
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MIT scientists learn how to control muscles with light

A new study suggests optogenetics can drive muscle contraction with greater control and less fatigue than electrical stimulation.
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Prelude to a new era of bionics

Through a paper in Nature Reviews Bioengineering, researchers delve into mechanoneural interfaces, a new paradigm for bionic integration.
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Connected Mind + Body: Improving Neural Control of Prostheses

The Media Lab is enhancing human physical capability and revolutionizing mental wellbeing using digital technologies and human-compute…
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Magnetic Implants for Muscle Tracking

This new technology can provide natural, reliable control of prostheses, exoskeletons, and stimulated muscles.
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Research Group Overview: Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability.
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The six dimensions of caring for patients with disabilities: a journey from the US to Sierra Leone

The journey to equitable access to bionic technology in Sierra Leone.
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Bionics Researchers Develop Technologies to Ease Pain and Transcend Human Limitations

Professor Hugh Herr and graduate student Christopher Shallal are working on next-generation biomimetic limbs.
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New collaboration aims to strengthen orthotic and prosthetic care in Sierra Leone

K Lisa Yang Center for Bionics and Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health and Sanitation aim to develop an integrative approach to strengthening
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Hugh Herr's new prosthetic tech uses magnets

Magnetomicrometry uses implantable magnets to track the position of muscles, potentially improving the control and efficacy of prosthetics.
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The Pacemaker: Magnetomicrometry for Prosthetic Control

Magnetomicrometry has exciting prospects for the control of wearable robotics, including prostheses and exoskeletons.
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Creating a sense of feeling

Biomedical engineer and dancer Shriya Srinivasan PhD ’20 explores connections between the human body and the outside world.
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IAP 2023

An evolving list of IAP activities hosted by members of the Media Lab community in collaboration with other MIT departments this year.
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Brown, MIT researchers validate new methodology for wireless muscle tracking

Two research papers published by Brown and MIT researchers focus on the possibility of employing improved muscle tracking technology.
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Magnetic sensors track muscle length

Using a new technology, researchers hope to create better control systems for prosthetic limbs.
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Zero Gravity Flight 2022

Read about the 2022 zero gravity flight and the projects that flew. This is an annual event hosted by the Space Exploration Initiative.
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Hugh Herr honored at Genius Gala 2022

On May 2, 2022, Hugh Herr (head of the Biomechatronics research group) will be honored at the 10th Genius Gala.
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Hugh Herr talks to the Boston Globe about the collaboration that led to a new amputation procedure

A team of Boston surgeons and scientists has developed a new approach to amputation.
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‘Augmented’ documentary charts what is gained from a reimagined amputation

Augmented is a Nova PBS documentary produced by STAT News, which follows the development of a new amputation procedure and bionic prostheses
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Augmented | Nova PBS episode featuring Hugh Herr

"Augmented" is a Nova PBS documentary episode that premiers Wednesday, 2/23, featuring Biomechatronics group head Hugh Herr.
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Hunting for the Next Moderna

Boston Magazine looks at 10 recent biomedical innovations created by local researchers, including the AMI procedure.
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Soft Robotics Podcast | Hugh Herr: "Bionics"

Biomechatronics group head Hugh Herr speaks with Marwa ElDiwiny on a recent episode of the IEEE RAS Soft Robotics podcast.
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New Bionics Center Established at MIT with $24 Million Gift

The center is funded by a $24 million gift to MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research from philanthropist Lisa Yang.
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‘I can still feel it’: Groundbreaking arm amputation surgery makes a ‘phantom’ hand seem real

Read about the first upper-limb amputation performed using the AMI procedure created by Media Lab researchers + Brigham and Women’s Hospital
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SXSW 2022 PanelPicker Proposals

Media Lab students, faculty, researchers, and affiliates pitching panels at SXSW 2022
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Magnets could offer better control of prosthetic limbs

System uses tiny magnetic beads to rapidly measure the position of muscles and relay that information to a bionic prosthesis.
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Bionics: The Future of Prosthetics

Hugh Herr discusses the implications of the technology behind his work, from regenerative medicine and surgery to elderly mobility.
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Meditations on the intersection of humanity and technology

Olivia Arthur explores the ways technology can transform the human body, and vice-versa, from robotics to work in the Biomechatronics group.
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New surgery may enable better control of prosthetic limbs

Reconnecting muscle pairs during amputation gives patients more sensory feedback from the limb.
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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

In a new study published in PNAS, Biomechatronics researchers report findings related to the AMI amputation method.
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Meet the Labbers

Meet the Labbers, which ran from 2016–2018, was an ongoing audio series that took listeners inside the Media Lab.
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U.S. Postal Stamp features research from Biomechatronics group

For the robotics category of the innovation series, the USPS chose the bionic prosthesis designed by Media Lab PhD graduate Matt Carney
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New US postage stamp highlights MIT research

The stamp is part of a new USPS series on innovation, representing computing, biomedicine, genome sequencing, robotics, and solar technology
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Episode 46: Pioneer through the pandemic with professor + innovator, Dr. Hugh Herr

Biomechatronics head Hugh Herr discusses his research with the No Barriers USA podcast.
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How a competitive swimmer is helping perfect a new amputation procedure

Cristina Quinn profiles Morgan Stickney, an elite swimmer who's the first person to undergo a bilateral Ewing amputation.
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This MIT engineer built his own bionic leg

Everett Lawson and Matt Carney worked with Biomechatronics group head Hugh Herr to fit Everett with a bionic prosthesis.
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Algorithm may improve brain-controlled prostheses and exoskeletons

An improved method for magnet tracking enables high-speed wireless tracking through various materials.
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Image and video credits for MIT News article "Algorithm may improve brain-controlled prostheses and exoskeletons"
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Swimmer with bionic legs plans to keep on swimming

Morgan Stickney is an elite swimmer who's helping pave the way for the next generation of bionic prosthetics and para-athletes.
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How AI is helping patients with prosthetics

Alicia Lakey receives the Ewing Amputation procedure developed by the Biomechatronics group and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
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Fast, portable magnet tracking

Sometimes you want to be able to see things that aren't visible.
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The whiz kid building a better cyborg

Because old-school surgical amputation hasn’t kept up with modern-day medicine.
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Leg nerves activated by light offer new path to restoring mobility

New optogenetic technique could help restore limb movement, treat muscle tremor.
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Brain-controlled bionic limbs developed at MIT

For amputees, robotic limbs that move like the real thing and are controlled by the mind are a game changer.
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SXSW 2019 PanelPicker Proposals

Media Lab students, faculty, researchers and affiliates pitching panels at SXSW 2019
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The Cyborg and the Singularity

Will we all be cyborgs one day? Hugh Herr says he has the answer.
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Prosthetic limb restores a sense of body position

New device gives an amputee the ability to feel the location of his foot
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How we'll become cyborgs and extend human potential | Hugh Herr @TED 2018

"During the twilight years of this century, I believe humans will be unrecognizable in morphology and dynamics from what we are today."
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Spectrally distinct channelrhodopsins for two-colour optogenetic peripheral nerve stimulation

Conventional peripheral neurostimulators are used to treat a variety of musculoskeletal and neurological conditions. Typically, they send a…
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Pioneering surgery makes a prosthetic foot feel like the real thing

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — For hours on end last year, Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers ran the brain-controlled robotic limb throug…
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Surgical technique improves sensation, control of prosthetic limb

New study describes first human implementation of novel approach to limb amputation.
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10+ years of Human 2.0

Revisit Human 2.0, a 2007 Media Lab symposium focused on the future of human adaptability.