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Brown, MIT researchers validate new methodology for wireless muscle tracking

Two research papers published by Brown and MIT researchers focus on the possibility of employing improved muscle tracking technology.
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Researchers Turn to Implantable Magnets to Provide High-Detail Muscle Movement Info for Robotics

Implantable without discomfort, these tiny magnets can provide continuous readings of muscle length for prosthetics and more.
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MIT researchers seek FDA approval to test new technology on people with prosthetic limbs

Researchers at MIT are seeking FDA approval to test new technology in people with prosthetic limbs, which could make them easier to control.
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Magnetic sensors track muscle length

Using a new technology, researchers hope to create better control systems for prosthetic limbs.
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Developing community around design

Meet the MIT Morningside Academy for Design’s inaugural fellows, including Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar and Francesca Riccio-Ackerman.
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 Candidates for prosthetics training program pose for a photo after interviews.

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Researcher Adikalie Kamara meets with a community to talk about their assistive device needs.

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Prostheses for All: Sierra Leone Project

Footage of the Biomechatronics Group in their work collaborating to improve the orthotic and prosthetic sector of Sierra Leone.
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Breaking through the mucus barrier

A capsule that tunnels through mucus in the GI tract could be used to orally administer large protein drugs such as insulin.
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Summer at MIT Media Lab yields 'community of purpose'

The Panther network was instrumental in helping Lina Henriquez obtain and thrive in the MIT summer program.
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Why Are Prosthetics So Expensive? Researchers Are Working to Change That

"No one would ever expect people to build their own heart valves at home"-- Francesca Riccio-Ackerman on inequity in the prosthetic field.
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The future of treating aging

Francesca Riccio-Ackerman and co-authors consider advances in the treatment of conditions associated with aging.
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Promoting systemic change in the Middle East, the “MIT way”

In a recent MISTI course, students engaged on collaborative solutions to climate, health care, and economic development in the Middle East.
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Aashini Shah one of 13 MIT undergrads, graduate students, and alumni awarded Fulbright fellowships in 2022–23

Sponsored by the US Department of State, the Fulbright US Student Program offers grants in over 150 countries.
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Hugh Herr honored at Genius Gala 2022

On May 2, 2022, Hugh Herr (head of the Biomechatronics research group) will be honored at the 10th Genius Gala.
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Conversations that Matter: The Importance of Education in the Amputee Experience (4/19/22)

Watch the recording of Conversations that Matter: The Importance of Education in the Amputee Experience, hosted by the Biomechatronics group
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Hugh Herr talks to the Boston Globe about the collaboration that led to a new amputation procedure

A team of Boston surgeons and scientists has developed a new approach to amputation.
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Virtual Event – ‘Augmented’: The future of brain-controlled prosthetic limbs

Alum Shriya Srinivasan, Dr. Matthew Carty, climber Jim Ewing, and others join STAT and Nova PBS for a conversation about the Augmented film.
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‘Augmented’ documentary charts what is gained from a reimagined amputation

Augmented is a Nova PBS documentary produced by STAT News, which follows the development of a new amputation procedure and bionic prostheses
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Augmented | Nova PBS episode featuring Hugh Herr

"Augmented" is a Nova PBS documentary episode that premiers Wednesday, 2/23, featuring Biomechatronics group head Hugh Herr.
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Hunting for the Next Moderna

Boston Magazine looks at 10 recent biomedical innovations created by local researchers, including the AMI procedure.
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Soft Robotics Podcast | Hugh Herr: "Bionics"

Biomechatronics group head Hugh Herr speaks with Marwa ElDiwiny on a recent episode of the IEEE RAS Soft Robotics podcast.
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Matthew Carty named Roberta and Stephen R. Weiner Distinguished Chair in Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital

Matthew Carty, a visiting scientist in the Biomechatronics group, has been named to this position at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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Making her way through MIT

Graduate student Lucy Du designs novel prosthetics and seeks to inspire others to pursue engineering.
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Congratulations to the 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees

The 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 list honors "bold risk-takers putting a new twist on the old tools of the trade" + includes a few Media Labbers.
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New Bionics Center Established at MIT with $24 Million Gift

The center is funded by a $24 million gift to MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research from philanthropist Lisa Yang.
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‘I can still feel it’: Groundbreaking arm amputation surgery makes a ‘phantom’ hand seem real

Read about the first upper-limb amputation performed using the AMI procedure created by Media Lab researchers + Brigham and Women’s Hospital
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Magnets can make prosthetic limbs more versatile and easier to control

A whole new mode of communication between prosthesis and user.
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MIT develops tiny magnetic beads that can help control prosthetic limbs better

A recent feature in Designboom highlights research conducted by the Biomechatronics group that describes magnetomicrometry.
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SXSW 2022 PanelPicker Proposals

Media Lab students, faculty, researchers, and affiliates pitching panels at SXSW 2022
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Magnets could offer better control of prosthetic limbs

System uses tiny magnetic beads to rapidly measure the position of muscles and relay that information to a bionic prosthesis.
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Cameron Taylor Dissertation Defense

Friday May 8, 2020 …
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Improving prosthetic control using magnetomicrometry

We plan to use magnetomicrometry to provide natural control over prosthetic limbs
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Two Media Lab Students Among the Recipients of the Inaugural Amazon Robotics Fellowships

The Fellowships are aimed at helping students from underrepresented backgrounds establish careers in robotics, engineering, computer science
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Innovators Under 35: Which MIT community members made the 2021 list?

Meet the MIT alumni, staff, and current or former postdocs on MIT Technology Review’s 2021 list of 35 Innovators Under 35.
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35 Innovators Under 35 | Humanitarians | Shriya Srinivasan

Srinivasan hopes her work will help make using a prosthetic limb far more like the real thing.
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Bionics: The Future of Prosthetics

Hugh Herr discusses the implications of the technology behind his work, from regenerative medicine and surgery to elderly mobility.
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Ayse Guvenilir and Ufuoma Ovienmhada awarded 2021 WISDM Fellowships

Women in Innovation and STEM Database at MIT (WISDM) announces fellowship program dedicated to promoting the visibility of women at MIT.
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Guillermo Herrera-Arcos chosen as a 2020/21 AstraZeneca YHP One Young World Scholar

Guillermo Herrera-Arcos has been named as a One Young World Scholar by the AstraZeneca Young Health Programme (YHP) for 2020/2021.
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Meditations on the intersection of humanity and technology

Olivia Arthur explores the ways technology can transform the human body, and vice-versa, from robotics to work in the Biomechatronics group.
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New surgery may enable better control of prosthetic limbs

Reconnecting muscle pairs during amputation gives patients more sensory feedback from the limb.
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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

In a new study published in PNAS, Biomechatronics researchers report findings related to the AMI amputation method.
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Biomechatronics—MultiDIC and Opensource Toolbox for Multi-View 3D
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Biomechatronics—Walking Experiment
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Biomechatronics—eOPRA System
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Biomechatronics—Grabowski running test
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Biomechatronics—Stiffness Control
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Meet the Labbers

Meet the Labbers, which ran from 2016–2018, was an ongoing audio series that took listeners inside the Media Lab.
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Fast Company's 2020 Innovation by Design Awards: Media Lab Honorees

The competition, now in its ninth year, has featured a cross section of blue-chip companies, scruffy startups, and hungry young talents.
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Adaptive Robotic Prostheses

My name is Roman Stolyarov, and for my PhD work at the Media Lab I developed a terrain-adaptive control system for robotic leg prostheses.
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U.S. Postal Stamp features research from Biomechatronics group

For the robotics category of the innovation series, the USPS chose the bionic prosthesis designed by Media Lab PhD graduate Matt Carney
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New US postage stamp highlights MIT research

The stamp is part of a new USPS series on innovation, representing computing, biomedicine, genome sequencing, robotics, and solar technology
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Biomechatronics—Two degree of freedom ankle demo: Robin Hsieh
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Reusable, N95 alternative face mask developed by a collaborative team hits production

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the need for PPE, a diverse team came together to produce the "Open Standard Respirator, Model 1"
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Informing Covid-19 preparedness in Sierra Leone

MIT Governance Lab and the Institute for Governance Reform work with the government of Sierra Leone to conduct rapid-response surveys.
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Podcast: Designing next-generation bionic limbs

Matt Carney discusses his interest in humanoid robots and the importance of design aesthetics and user experience in developing prostheses.
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Episode 46: Pioneer through the pandemic with professor + innovator, Dr. Hugh Herr

Biomechatronics head Hugh Herr discusses his research with the No Barriers USA podcast.
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Shriya Srinivasan among winners of 2020 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

Congratulations to all of the winners of the 2020 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, including Biomechatronics PhD student Shriya Srinivasan.
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Shriya Srinivasan chosen as a 2020 Schmidt Science Fellow

Shriya Srinivasan has been selected as one of 22 Schmidt Science Fellows for 2020.
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Media Lab research response to COVID-19

The Media Lab community brings creativity, expertise, and research to the pandemic