Bionic ankle "emulates nature"
From: R&D Magazine - 04/17/2014

These days, Hugh Herr, an associate professor of media arts and sciences at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), gets about 100 emails daily from
people across the world interested in his bionic limbs.

It's a mark of the groundbreaking work Herr has done at the MIT Media Lab
over the past two decades. An amputee himself, Herr has been designing (and
wearing) bionic leg prostheses that, he says, "emulate nature" - mimicking
the functions and power of biological knees, ankles, and calves.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/04/bionic-ankle-%E2%80%9Cemulates-nature%E2%80%9D
http://www.pddnet.com/news/2014/04/bionic-ankle-emulates-nature
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2014/04/bionic-ankle-emulates-nature

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