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15-Jul-2017

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What will happen when humans decide to become robots?

Sensors give prosthetic legs an awareness of what is around them.

Rich and fortunate may become physically superior, too.

Redesigning how limbs are amputated to create the right mechanical and electrical interfacing environment that would join the brain directly to the limb.

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Hugh Herr

Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Private land-grant research university

Roman Stolyarov

Senior Staff Robotics Scientist, Product Innovation at Activ Surgical.

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