March 10, 2010
The O&P Edge
Hugh Herr: Beyond the Merely Human
By Morgan Stanfield
If the power were granted you to break out of your cells... you would dare to be changed, as you are changing now, into the shape you dread, beyond the merely human. —From "King of the River," by Stanley Kunitz, former Poet Laureate of the United States
Hugh Herr, PhD, may carry the world's most intimate knowledge of how O&P devices may take humanity "beyond the merely human." The founder and director of the Biomechatronics Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Herr says ...
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