Hugh M Herr

Professor
Department
Program in Media Arts and Sciences
Technology Areas
Biotechnology: Prostheses, Sensors & Monitoring, Tissue Engineering, Biomedical Devices & Systems / Industrial Engineering & Automation: Robotics, Manufacturing & Equipment, Autonomous Systems, Motors / Biomaterials & Bioelectronics: Health Monitoring, Tissue Repair / Computer Science: Bioinformatics, Networking & Signals / Chemicals & Materials: Nanotechnology & Nanomaterials, Fabrics & Textiles / Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
Impact Areas
Healthy Living, Uncharted Frontiers, Advanced Materials, Connected World

Technologies

Optimal Design of a Lower Limb Exoskeleton or Orthosis

Exclusively Licensed Technology / Case number: #16780TE
Kenneth Pasch / Elliot Rouse / Luke Mooney / Jiun-Yih Kuan / Hugh M Herr
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Industrial Engineering & Automation
Impact Areas: Healthy Living

An Automated Computational Framework for the Design of Human-Specific Mechanical Interfaces that Connect a Device to a Biological Body Segment

Exclusively Licensed Technology / Case number: #18446TE
Hugh M Herr / Kevin Moerman / David Sengeh
Technology Areas: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) / Biotechnology / Computer Science / Industrial Engineering & Automation
Impact Areas: Healthy Living

Biomimetic Robotic Leg with Agonist-Antagonist Actuation

Exclusively Licensed Technology / Case number: #13611TE
Hugh M Herr / Patricia Ellis / Ernesto Martinez-Villalpando / Michael Eilenberg / Jeff Weber / Hartmut Geyer
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Industrial Engineering & Automation
Impact Areas: Healthy Living

Biomimetic Motion and Balance Controllers

Exclusively Licensed Technology / Case number: #11795TEQ
Hugh M Herr / Patricia Ellis / Marko Popovic / Andreas Hofmann
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Industrial Engineering & Automation

Peripheral Neural Interface via Nerve Regeneration to Distal Tissues

Exclusively Licensed Technology / Case number: #16650TE
Hugh M Herr / Matthew Carty / Rick Casler / Ronald Riso / Katherine Song
Technology Areas: Biomaterials & Bioelectronics / Biotechnology
Impact Areas: Healthy Living

An Agonist-Antagonist Actuator

Exclusively Licensed Technology / Case number: #12027TE
Hugh M Herr / Patricia Ellis / Ken Endo / Lee Magnusson
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Industrial Engineering & Automation
Impact Areas: Healthy Living

Artificial Ankle-Foot System with Parallel-Spring and Series-Elastic Actuator Components

Exclusively Licensed Technology / Case number: #12752TE
Hugh M Herr / Patricia Ellis / Benjamin Aisen / Lee Magnusson / Jeff Weber / Andreas Hofmann / Kwok Wai (Samuel) Au / Bruce Deffenbaugh
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Industrial Engineering & Automation
Impact Areas: Healthy Living

Wearable Monitor and Feedback Device for Knee Osteoarthritis

Technology / Case number: #17056TE
Hugh M Herr / Madeleine Abromowitz
Technology Areas: Biomaterials & Bioelectronics / Biotechnology
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Method and System of Digital Design and Fabrication of a Biomechanical Interface

Technology / Case number: #24860TE
Hugh M Herr / Duncan Lee / Christina Meyer / Xingbang Yang / Dana Solav
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Computer Science
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Fine Wire Muscle Interfaces

Technology / Case number: #24876TE
Hugh M Herr / Cameron Taylor
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Computer Science
Impact Areas: Healthy Living, Connected World
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