The Animaris Ordis walk will take place even if it is raining.

Strandbeest creator Theo Jansen in conversation with Neri Oxman and Trevor Smith.

Strandbeest creator Theo Jansen in conversation with Neri Oxman and Trevor Smith.

Former Advisory Council Member

Graduate Student

Former Research Assistant

Bauhaus artist Paul Klee considered a line to be  one of the atomic elements of art and architecture. He famously described a line dra…

The "dream" has historically been conceived in the West as internal, entirely private, impossibly personal. This is at odds with much of th…

Tune in for the FINAL event of this fall featuring Elijah Anderson on November 17 at 2pm.

Research finds Covid-19-related lockdowns led to a marked reduction in walking in lower-income areas of major metropolises.

P. Krishnaswamy, E. N. Brown, H. M. Herr

A new surgical procedure gives people more neural feedback from their residual limb. With it, seven patients walked more naturally

H.M. Herr and M. Popovic. Angular momentum in human walking, Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 211, no. 4, pp. 467-481, 2008.

Matthew Aldrich, Akash Badshah, Brian Mayton, Nan Zhao, Joseph A. Paradiso

M. Popovic and A. Englehart. Angular momentum primitives for human walking: Biomechanics and control, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, vol. 2, pp. 1685–1691, 2004.

L. M. Mooney, E. J. Rouse and H. M. Herr. Autonomous exoskeleton reduces metabolic cost of walking, International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August. 2014.

We are studying the mechanical behavior of leg muscles and tendons during human walking in order to motivate the design of power-efficient …

Sourabh A. Niyogi, Edward H. Adelson

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

K. Endo and H. Herr. A model of muscle-tendon function in human walking, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Kobe, Japan, May 2009.

Tune in for the next event featuring Topher Sanders on November 10 at 2pm.

Farrell, M. T. "Pattern Classification of Terrain During Amputee Walking"

M. Popovic, A. Hofmann, and H. Herr. Angular momentum regulation during human walking: Biomechanics and control, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, vol. 3, pp. 2405–2411, 2004.

Handford, Matthew L., and Manoj Srinivasan. "Sideways walking: preferred is slow, slow is optimal, and optimal is expensive." Biology letters 10.1 (2014): 20131006.

K. Endo and H. Herr. Human walking model predicts joint mechanics, electromyography and mechanical economy, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), St. Louis, MO, Oct. 2009.

J. Hu, J. Pratt, C.-M. Chew, H. Herr, G. Pratt

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.

J. J. Hu, J. E. Pratt, C.-M. Chew, H. M. Herr, and G. A. Pratt. Virtual model based adaptive dynamic control of a biped walking robot, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 337–348, Sep. 1999.

Transients occur in human walking during a transition to, from, and between steady state walking and acts as an impulse destabilizing a gai…

S. Au, J. Weber, H.M Herr

Handford, Matthew L., and Manoj Srinivasan. "Energy-optimal human walking with feedback-controlled robotic prostheses: A computational study." IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 26.9 (2018): 1773-1782.

K. Endo, D. Paluska, and H.M. Herr. A quasi-passive model of human leg function in level-ground walking, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Beijing, China, Oct. 2006.

E. C. Martinez-Villalpando, and H. M. Herr. Agonist-antagonist active knee prosthesis: A preliminary study in level-ground walking, Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development (JRRD), vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 361-73, 2009.

L. M. Mooney, H. M. Herr

Boston.com reports on research conducted by Human Dynamics head Sandy Pentland, visiting professor Esteban Moro, and collaborators.

S. K. Au, P. Dilworth, and H. M. Herr. An ankle-foot emulation system for the study of human walking biomechanics, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Orlando, FL, pp. 2939-2945, May 2006.

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.

Xiao Xiao, Basheer Tome, Hiroshi Ishii

L. M. Mooney, E. J. Rouse, H. M. Herr

E. C. Martinez-Villalpando, L. M. Mooney, G. A. Elliott and H. M. Herr. Antagonistic Active Knee Prosthesis. A Metabolic Cost of Walking Comparison with a Variable-Damping Prosthetic Knee, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE, 2011.

Selected proposals seek to develop positive alternative visions for the future of algorithmic systems and their research communities.

H. Herr, G. Pratt, R. Dennis, N. Rosenthal, and R. Marsh. From swimming to walking: Examples of how biology is helping us design better machines, Second International Congress on Motion Systems, Jena, Germany, Jul. 2001.

Excessive power consumption and dissipation of electronics with technology scaling, is a serious threat to the Information Society as well …

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

The “Keep Walking City Collection" features art that uses Graviky Lab's AIR-INK to evoke a strong sense of place.

Waleed Akbar, Ahmed Allam, and Fadel Adib. 2023. The Underwater Backscatter Channel: Theory, Link Budget, and Experimental Validation. Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 51, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3570361.3613265

Professor Fadel Adib gave a 30-minute talk about networked control and communications for robotics and sensing at this year's IEE…

Picard, R. W., Fedor, S., & Ayzenberg, Y. (2016). Response to Commentaries on “Multiple Arousal Theory and Daily-Life Electrodermal Activity Asymmetry”. Emotion Review, 8(1), 84-86. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073914565523

H. Geyer and H. Herr. A muscle-reflex model that encodes principles of legged mechanics produces human walking dynamics and muscle activities, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering, 2010.

Kevin Esvelt and Gigi Gronvall join Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinky to discuss Gain of Function research, and Covid Origin Theory.

Danielle Wood publishes "Sustainable Development Goals for Mars" in the Walker Art Center Magazine.

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This work focuses on bringing powerful concepts from wave optics to the creation of new algorithms and applications for computer vision and…

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Social learning has shown that people are more likely to learn from those who are seen as prestigious, talented, or who share demographic a…

Mind-Theoretic Planning (MTP) is a technique for robots to plan in social domains. This system takes into account probability distributions…