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Enhancing human physical capability
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
Researchers from the Fluid Interfaces research group and collaborators are delving into the secrets of aesthetic chills.
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Two research papers published by Brown and MIT researchers focus on the possibility of employing improved muscle tracking technology.
Using a new technology, researchers hope to create better control systems for prosthetic limbs.
Existing upper extremity prosthesis controllers have limited functionality and place high cognitive demands on users, both of which contrib…
A team of Boston surgeons and scientists has developed a new approach to amputation.
Alum Shriya Srinivasan, Dr. Matthew Carty, climber Jim Ewing, and others join STAT and Nova PBS for a conversation about the Augmented film.
"Augmented" is a Nova PBS documentary episode that premiers Wednesday, 2/23, featuring Biomechatronics group head Hugh Herr.
Boston Magazine looks at 10 recent biomedical innovations created by local researchers, including the AMI procedure.
C. R. Taylor, S. S. Srinivasan, S. H. Yeon, M. K. O'Donnell, T. J. Roberts, H. M. Herr, Magnetomicrometry, Sci.Robot. 6, eabg0656 (2021), DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.abg0656
In this project we propose a prototype which combines an existing AR headset Hololens 2 with a Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) system based…
Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioception,…
The human body produces a variety of different electrophysiological signals from brain-waves (EEG) to the electrical activity of the heart …
The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, band…
Nerve-Muscle Graft Chamber and micro-channel arrays tor interface to peripheral nerves for prosthesis control. This research effort co…
Optogenetic techniques have recently been applied to peripheral nerves as a scientific tool with the translatable goal…
Recent advances in artificial limbs have resulted in the provision of powered ankle and knee function for lower extremity amputees and powe…
Read about the first upper-limb amputation performed using the AMI procedure created by Media Lab researchers + Brigham and Women’s Hospital
A recent feature in Designboom highlights research conducted by the Biomechatronics group that describes magnetomicrometry.
Amputation, muscle weakness, and nerve damage can make it difficult to perform simple daily tasks. In this project, we are developing a mi…
We plan to use magnetomicrometry to provide natural control over prosthetic limbs
C. Taylor, Magnetomicrometry : Tissue length tracking via implanted magnetic beads (2020). https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/130210
EEG-based biometrics (user identification) has been explored on small datasets of no more than 157 subjects. Here we show that the accuracy…
Interpreting human electroencephalogram (EEG) is a challenging task and requires years of medical training. We present a framework for lear…
An improved method for magnet tracking enables high-speed wireless tracking through various materials.
Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations
The Gamma SENSE (Sensory Engaging Nebulised Scent Experience) is a pioneering instrumental addition to the gamma instrument series. The dev…
Cristina Quinn profiles Morgan Stickney, an elite swimmer who's the first person to undergo a bilateral Ewing amputation.
Morgan Stickney is an elite swimmer who's helping pave the way for the next generation of bionic prosthetics and para-athletes.
Exploring the connection between our two minds: the one in our head and the one in our body. The mind-gut connection has flourished as…
Flower is a new visualization tool for in-depth study of multi-sensor recordings in the time domain. It has been released for public downlo…
Vujic, A., Tong, S., Picard, R., Maes, P. (2018) Towards Gut-Brain Computer Interfacing: Gastric Myoelectric Activity as an Index of Subcortical Phenomena. In 3rd International Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Conference, 135-136.
The Warren Alpert Foundation honors scientists whose work has improved the understanding, prevention, treatment or cure of human disease.
The past two decades have seen unprecedented progress in the development of novel materials, form factors, and functionalities in neuroimp…
We present a review paper that analyzes how early design decisions can affect the regulatory approval process downstream.
B. Maimon, A. N. Zorzos, K. W. Song, R. Bendell, R. Riso, H. M. Herr
Maimon BE, Zorzos AN, Bendell R, Harding A, Fahmi M, Srinivasan S, Calvaresi P, Herr HM. J Neural Eng. 2017 Feb 3;14(3): 034002
T. R. Clites, M. J. Carty, S. Srinivasan, A. N. Zorzos, H. M. Herr, A murine model of a novel surgical architecture for proprioceptive muscle feedback and its potential application to control of advanced limb prostheses., J. Neural Eng. 14, aa614b (2017).