Researcher maps human locomotion in detail to improve rehabilitative and assistive robotics
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 - 05:50
in Mathematics & Economics
It's not every day that graduate students get to test out their research on their advisors. But MIT's David Hill, a PhD student in media arts and sciences, builds computational models of human locomotion, which are the basis for designing ever-better prosthetics—and his advisor, Hugh Herr, an associate professor of media arts and sciences, is a double amputee.