Monday, April 2, 2012

Pushing Limits with a Fearless Bionic Man

Hugh Herr: "I'm just in love with–enamored with–the design of the human body; its elegance. We steal from the cookie jar of nature and we apply that, and we build synthetic constructs that emulate that functionality."

Here's a preview of one of the topics of our April event, Inside Out, via Sanjay Gupta's interview with Media Lab professor Hugh Herr. Hugh discusses his group's work on "bionic" prosthetics in this CNN video (click the image for the video and full article on CNN).

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