Follow the dramatic personal journey of Hugh Herr, a biophysicist working to create brain-controlled robotic limbs. At age 17, Herr’s legs were amputated after a climbing accident. Frustrated by the primitive prosthetic limbs he was given, Herr set out to remedy their design, leading him to a career as an inventor of innovative prosthetic devices that move and feel like the real thing.
Watch Augmented on NOVA, tonight at 9pm on GBH 2.
[An artificial foot and prosthetic leg, showing some of the mechanisms involved in their design, are employed by a person rock climbing on the beach.]
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