Dr. Hugh Herr believes we can end disability in this century through bionics. — -- Biophysicist Hugh Herr was a climbing prodigy. He would spend summers with his Mennonite family from ...

Hugh Herr, the director of an M.I.T. laboratory that pursues the “merging of body and machine,” grew up in a Mennonite family outside Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He and his brothers—he was the ...

“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 ...

Even with the most advanced prosthetics, amputees cannot feel the ground when they walk on a synthetic leg, or know if someone is touching a mechanical arm. This new MIT tech hopes to change that ...

Dr. Hugh Herr, a professor at MIT and senior author of the study, explained the significance: "This is the first prosthetic study in history that shows a leg prosthesis under full neural ...

In those devastating early days after the operation, Hugh Herr had a recurring dream. He was running through the cornfields behind his parents’ house in rural Pennsylvania, going impossibly fast, the ...

When paired with a bionic leg designed by MIT's Hugh Herr, amputees can move and "feel" their limbs like never before. About Hugh Herr Hugh Herr is a professor at the MIT Media Lab and co-directs ...

Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Collaborating with Hugh Herr, an MIT technologist and double-amputee, Carty developed a new surgical approach ...

not a robotic control algorithm," said senior researcher Hugh Herr, co-director of the K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics at MIT. Most arm and leg movement is controlled by pairs of muscles that take ...

Hugh Herr, the study's lead professor and MIT researcher, said he was "amazed" and "proud" of the results. He explained in an interview with the Guardian: "No one has ever been able to demonstrate ...

Collaborating with Hugh Herr, an MIT technologist and double-amputee, Carty developed a new surgical approach, linking pairs of muscles involved in flexing and turning the ankle. Now, the two have ...