{"id":15996,"date":"2015-08-09T12:46:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T19:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/watch-the-dawn-of-the-bionic-man"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:49:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:49:39","slug":"watch-the-dawn-of-the-bionic-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/watch-the-dawn-of-the-bionic-man","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: The dawn of the bionic man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/watch-the-dawn-of-the-bionic-man.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hugh Herr is building the next generation of bionic limbs, robotic prosthetics inspired by nature\u2019s own designs. Herr lost both legs in a climbing accident 30 years ago; now, as the head of the MIT Media Lab\u2019s Biomechatronics group, he shows his incredible technology in a talk that\u2019s both technical and deeply personal \u2014 with the help of ballroom dancer Adrianne Haslet-Davis, who lost her left leg in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, and performs again for the first time on the TED stage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/t.ted.com\/zorbYRG\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh Herr is building the next generation of bionic limbs, robotic prosthetics inspired by nature\u2019s own designs. Herr lost both legs in a climbing accident 30 years ago; now, as the head of the MIT Media Lab\u2019s Biomechatronics group, he shows his incredible technology in a talk that\u2019s both technical and deeply personal \u2014 with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64481,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15996\/revisions\/64481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}