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On the Design of Bionic Limbs: The Science of Tissue-Synthetic Interface

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Air date:	Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 2:00:00 PM Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
Views:	Total views: 326 (143 Live, 183 On-demand)
Category:	WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
Runtime:	00:58:18
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Description:	Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series Dr. Herr is professor of media arts and sciences and heads the Biomechatronics Group at the MIT Media Lab. He has been labeled "leader of the bionic age" because of his revolutionary work in the emerging field of biomechatronics, technology that marries human physiology with electromechanics. A double amputee himself, Herr is responsible for breakthrough advances in bionic limbs that provide greater mobility and new hope to those with physical disabilities. Herr's Biomechatronics Group has developed gait-adaptive knee prostheses for transfemoral amputees and variable impedance ankle-foot orthoses for patients suffering from drop foot, a gait pathology caused by stroke, cerebral palsy, and multiple sclerosis. He also has designed his own bionic limbs, the world's first bionic lower leg called the BiOM Ankle System. For more information go to https://oir.nih.gov/wals

NLM Title:	On the design of bionic limbs : the science of tissue-synthetic interface / Hugh Herr.
Author:	Herr, Hugh. National Institutes of Health (U.S.),
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Abstract:	(CIT): Dr. Herr is professor of media arts and sciences and heads the Biomechatronics Group at the MIT Media Lab. He has been labeled "leader of the bionic age" because of his revolutionary work in the emerging field of biomechatronics, technology that marries human physiology with electromechanics. A double amputee himself, Herr is responsible for breakthrough advances in bionic limbs that provide greater mobility and new hope to those with physical disabilities. Herr's Biomechatronics Group has developed gait-adaptive knee prostheses for transfemoral amputees and variable impedance ankle-foot orthoses for patients suffering from drop foot, a gait pathology caused by stroke, cerebral palsy, and multiple sclerosis. He also has designed his own bionic limbs, the world's first bionic lower leg called the BiOM Ankle System.
Subjects:	Amputees--rehabilitation Artificial Limbs Biomechanical Phenomena Bionics Brain-Computer Interfaces Leg
Publication Types:	Lecture Webcast

NLM Classification:	WE 172
NLM ID:	9918226878506676
CIT Live ID:	41586
Permanent link:	https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=41586

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