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Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
WHx Program: Unlocking women's health through transformative technologies
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
The myoneural actuator is a fatigue-resistant, implantable biohybrid actuator built from living skeletal muscle, engineered through a regen…
A new biohybrid system developed at MIT is the first living implant that uses rewired nerves to revive paralyzed organs.
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Hugh Herr discusses the future of bionics, from brain-connected prostheses to restoring function and movement for users of all genders.
Enhancing human physical capability
We've designed a health system strengthening model to support and expand the prosthetic and orthotic sector that cares for people wit…
Scientists have developed a prosthesis that is directly integrated with muscle and bone in order to improve movement
Revolutionary prosthetic knee fuses with bone and muscle to restore lifelike motion to above-the-knee amputees.
In a small clinical study, users of this prosthesis navigated more easily and said the limb felt more like part of their body.
Biplanar fluoroscopy (BiFlo) enables three-dimensional bone kinematics analysis using x-ray videos and bone geometry from segmented CT. Hin…
Powered ankle prostheses have been proven to improve the walking economy of transtibial amputees although these powered systems are usually…
News coverage of the neural control prosthetic from Biomechatronics group.
This project focuses on developing and integrating new powered prosthetic limbs, sensor systems, and surgical technologies to restore neura…
Watch: Tech Briefs Magazine features a video of Dave Burke working with Media Lab Biomechatronics researcher Michael Fernandez.
Existing upper extremity prosthesis controllers have limited functionality and place high cognitive demands on users, both of which contrib…
For Video Friday, IEEE Spectrum highlights a clip of Media Lab Biomechatronics researcher Michael Fernandez working with Dave Burke.
The prosthetic interface consists of a compliant liner and rigid socket, and conventionally has been made through a very hands-on artisinal…
Shu, T., Herrera-Arcos, G., Taylor, C.R. et al. Mechanoneural interfaces for bionic integration. Nat Rev Bioeng (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44222-024-00151-y
A team of Boston surgeons and scientists has developed a new approach to amputation.
The journey to equitable access to bionic technology in Sierra Leone.
