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C. Walsh, K. Pasch, and H. M. Herr. An autonomous, underactuated exoskeleton for loadcarrying augmentation, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Beijing, China, Oct. 2006.
C. Walsh, K. Endo, and H. M. Herr. A quasi-passive leg exoskeleton for load-carrying augmentation, International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 487-506, 2007.
S. K. Au, J. Weber, and H. Herr. Biomechanical design of a powered ankle-foot prosthesis, IEEE 10th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, pp. 298–303, 2007.
S. K. Au, J. Weber, H. M. Herr and E.C. Martinez-Villapando, Powered ankle-foot prosthesis for the improvement of amputee ambulation, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology International Conference, Lyon, France, pp. 3020-3026, 2007.
E. C. Martinez-Villalpando, H. M. Herr. Estimation of ground reaction force and zero moment point on a powered ankle-foot prosthesis, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology International Conference, Lyon, France, pp. 4687-4692, 2007.
Aisen, B. "An Inertial Measurement-Based Gait Detection System for Active Leg Prostheses"
H.M. Herr and M. Popovic. Angular momentum in human walking, Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 211, no. 4, pp. 467-481, 2008.
A. Dollar and H. M. Herr. Lower Extremity Exoskeletons and Active Orthoses: Challenges and State-of-the-Art, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Special Issue on Biorobotics, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 144-158, 2008.
E. J. Rouse, L. M. Mooney, E. C. Martinez-Villalpando and H. M. Herr A clutchable series-elastic actuator: design of a robotic knee prosthesis for minimum energy consumption, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, 2013
M. T. Farrell, H. M. Herr
G. Elliott, A. Marecki and H. Herr. Design of a Clutch–Spring Knee Exoskeleton for Running, Journal of Medical Devices, vol 8, no. 3, 031002-031002-11, July. 2014.
S. Au, J. Weber, H.M Herr
H. M. Herr and A. M. Grabowski. Bionic ankle-foot prosthesis normalizes walking gait for persons with leg amputation, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, vol. 279, no. 1728, pp. 457–464, Feb. 2012.
H. Herr. Exoskeletons and orthoses: classification, design challenges and future directions, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 21, Jun. 2009.
A. M. Grabowski, C. P. McGowan, W. J. McDermott, M. T. Beale, R. Kram, and H. M. Herr. Running-specific prostheses limit ground-force during sprinting, Biology Letters, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 201-204, 2010.
S. K. Au, M. Berniker, H. M. Herr
E.L. Doubrovski, Elizabeth Tsai, D. Dikovsky, J.M.P. Geraedts, Hugh Herr, Neri Oxman
L. M. Mooney, E. J. Rouse and H. M. Herr. Autonomous exoskeleton reduces metabolic cost of human walking, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, vol. 11, pp. 151, November. 2014
D. Sengeh, H. M. Herr
Farrell, M. T. "Pattern Classification of Terrain During Amputee Walking"
E. J. Rouse, L. M. Mooney and H. M. Herr Clutchable series-elastic actuator: Implications for prosthetic knee design International Journal of Robotics Research, 2014, in press
Duval, JF "FlexSEA: flexible, scalable electronics architecture for wearable robotic applications"
Moerman, K. M., Simms, C. K., Nagel, T. Control of tension-compression asymmetry in Ogden hyperelasticity with application to soft tissue modelling Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 56, 218–228, 2016
E. J. Rouse, N. C. Villagaray-Carski, R. W. Emerson, H. M. Herr
H. M. Herr, R. R. Riso, K. W. Song, R. J.Casler, M. J. Carty, Peripheral Neural Interface Via Nerve Regeneration to Distal Tissues. US Patent US20160346099 (2016).
L. M. Mooney, H. M. Herr
Sengeh DM, Moerman, K. M., Petron A, Herr H.M.
J.F. Duval, H. M. Herr
Maimon BE, Zorzos AN, Bendell R, Harding A, Fahmi M, Srinivasan S, Calvaresi P, Herr HM. J Neural Eng. 2017 Feb 3;14(3): 034002
Stolyarov, R. M., Burnett, G., & Herr, H. (2017). Translational Motion Tracking of Leg Joints for Enhanced Prediction of Walking Tasks. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 1-1. doi:10.1109/tbme.2017.2718528
T. R. Clites, M. J. Carty, S. Srinivasan, A. N. Zorzos, H. M. Herr, A murine model of a novel surgical architecture for proprioceptive muscle feedback and its potential application to control of advanced limb prostheses., J. Neural Eng. 14, aa614b (2017).
T. R. Clites, M. J. Carty, H. M. Herr, in Plastic Surgery Research Council, (2017), p. 119.
T. R. Clites, M. J. Carty, J. B. Ullauri, M. E. Carney, L. M. Mooney, J.-F. Duval, S. S. Srinivasan, H. M. Herr, Proprioception from a neurally controlled lower-extremity prosthesis. Sci. Transl. Med. 10, eaap8373 (2018).
Solav, D., K. M. Moerman, A. M. Jaeger, K. Genovese, and H. M. Herr. MultiDIC: an Open-Source Toolbox for Multi-View 3D Digital Image Correlation. IEEE Access 6:30520–30535, 2018.
M. Eilenberg, J. Kuan, and H. Herr. Development and Evaluation of a Powered Artificial Gastrocnemius for Transtibial Amputee Gait, Journal of Robotics, vol. 2018, Article ID 5951965, 15 pages, 2018.
J. Markowitz and H. Herr. Human Leg Model Predicts Muscle Forces, States, and Energetics during Walking, PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 5, no. 12, May. 2016.
Lin, B., Moerman, K. M., McMahan, C. G., Pasch, K. A., & Herr, H. M. Low-Cost Methodology for Skin Strain Measurement of a Flexed Biological Limb. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, PP(99), 2016.
B.J. Ranger, M. Feigin, N. Pestrov, X. Zhang, V. Lempitsky, H.M. Herr, B.W. Anthony. “Motion compensation in a tomographic ultrasound imaging system: toward volumetric scans of a limb for prosthetic socket design”. Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, 2015.
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) and the MIT Media Lab are joining forces to launch a global Council on Ex…
Personalized machine-learning models capture subtle variations in facial expressions to better gauge how we feel
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Electrodes on the face and jaw pick up otherwise undetectable neuromuscular signals triggered by internal verbalizations.
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Rana el Kaliouby is now helping AI understand human emotion. Rosalind Picard pioneered the field of affective computing.
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Cynthia Breazeal, MIT associate professor of media arts and sciences, describes her research on social and emotional intelligence.
GUI3D Template is a generic implementation of the GUI components that anyone might want for a 3D simulation in Processing 3. Component…
Zhang, Yan. “CityMatrix – An Urban Decision Support System Augmented by Artificial Intelligence.” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.
The first use-case for programmable droplets is a kind of automated painters' palette.
Every 98 seconds, a person in the United States is sexually abused. Every 16 hours, a woman in the United States is murdered by her ro…
We cannot certify that an AI agent is ethical by looking at its source code.
A. Kapur, S. Kapur, and P. Maes, "AlterEgo: A Personalized Wearable Silent Speech Interface." 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2018), pp 43-53, March 5, 2018.
Sang-won Leigh, et al. "Morphology Extension Kit: A Modular Robotic Platform for Physically Reconfigurable Wearables." TEI 18, pp 11-18, March 3, 2018.
Small cities face greater impact from automation Morgan R. Frank, Lijun Sun, Manuel Cebrian, Hyejin Youn, Iyad Rahwan J. R. Soc. Interface 2018 15 20170946; DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2017.0946. Published 7 February 2018
How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences.
Jacob W. Crandall, Mayada Oudah, Tennom, Fatimah Ishowo-Oloko, Sherief Abdallah, Jean-François Bonnefon, Manuel Cebrian, Azim Shariff, Michael A. Goodrich , Iyad Rahwan . Nature Communications, 2018.
Hae Won Park, Mirko Gelsomini, Jin Joo Lee, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2017. Telling Stories to Robots: The Effect of Backchanneling on a Child's Storytelling. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '17).
They are reading to kids, singing lullabies to them and even taking naps with them. Artificial Intelligence (AI) toys are coming into our h…
It’s cute when a kid asks, “Alexa, did you farted?,” but as the realm of smart technology quickly evolves from household voice assistants t…
Sleep is perhaps the most critical human activity for well-being, but seldom receives the priority it deserves. We get less rest than we ne…
When I brought the robot home from the Apple Store, I knew I was inviting a new kind of strangeness into our lives. My wife worried ab…
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Can we enable social connectivity between astronauts and people on Earth through an embodied agent?Astronauts actively communicate with the…
Can a magician and a robot collaborate on stage to create a believable, evocative performance?We are studying how the …
Developed by Ira Winder with the MIT Centre for Transportation and Logistics, the model seeks to use real population data and create a simu…