Before Hugh Herr was known for creating some of the world's most advanced prosthetic limbs, he was known as the kid on his way to becoming one of the best rock climbers in the world. By age 8 ...

Study author Professor Hugh Herr, himself an amputee, says: 'This is the first prosthetic study in history that shows a leg prosthesis under full neural modulation, where a biomimetic gait emerges.' ...

“That gave me hope. Something to go on.” In the spring of 2010, he read about a new type of prosthesis being developed by Hugh Herr, head of the biomechatronics group at MIT’s Media La ...

Hugh Herr has a long history of pushing the limits of human physical ability. As a child in rural Pennsylvania, Herr dreamed of becoming the world's best climber. By the age of 15, he was scaling ...

where a biomimetic gait emerges," said coauthor and MIT Center for Bionics co-director Hugh Herr — who is a double amputee himself — in a statement. "No one has been able to show this level of ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Dr. Hugh Herr, head of the Biomechatronics research group at the MIT Media Lab, gave us a demonstration of bionic legs at Ignition 2013. A double amputee himself ...

“This could lead to a minimally invasive strategy that would change the game in terms of clinical care for persons suffering from limb pathology,” Hugh Herr says, pictured on left next to ...

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