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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Dr. Hugh Herr, Associate Professor MIT Media Lab and head of the Biomechatronics group, @MIT Media Lab.

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Dr. Hugh Herr, is Associate Professor MIT Media Lab, heads the Biomechatronics group at the MIT Media Lab, as well as the Center for Extreme Bionics at MIT, and is creating bionic limbs that emulate the function of natural limbs.

In 2011, TIME magazine coined him the “Leader of the Bionic Age” because of his revolutionary work in the emerging field of biomechatronics – technology that marries human physiology with electromechanics.

The masks are slipping. Police move in on Adamson’s BBQ. blocking access and changing locks to the building, according to CP24, which seems to have been given an exclusive on the story



Mayor John Tory says the locks have been changed at Adamson Barbecue in Etobicoke on Thursday after the restaurant, for two days straight, defied the province’s lockdown orders that forbid indoor dining.

“I’ve spoken to the police chief this morning 
 and they have a plan. He’s informed me the locks have been changed on the building 
 and there’s going to be a police presence there also 
 it is going to be closed today, you can be sure of that,” Tory tells Breakfast Television.

Police and city staff arrived at the establishment around 6 a.m. with locksmiths in tow to change the locks.