A new surgery maintains the sensation of limb control after an amputation. When paired with a bionic leg designed by MIT's Hugh Herr, amputees can... Bionic limbs can now feel 'real' thanks to new ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology launched a new bionics center Thursday funded by a US$24 million gift by investor-turned-philanthropist Lisa Yang. The K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics, which ...

MANHASSET, N.Y. — MIT professor and inventor Hugh Herr, who is pioneering a new class of “biohybrid” smart prosthetic devices, will draw on his life-altering personal experience in an ESC Boston ...

If you think this vision sounds ambitious, perhaps unrealistic, then bear in mind that Herr has proved people wrong before. At the age of 17, he lost both of his legs to frostbite in a climbing ...