Biomechatronics: Wiring Prosthetics Into the Nervous System

Could electronics connect directly into your nervous system? This short documentary profiles a team working to make that a reality with prosthetics and their vision of future hybrid designed devices that will blend biological and synthetic components.

Interviewees from the MIT Biomechatronics Group: Hugh Herr, Director, and Dan Paluska and Waleed Farahat, graduate students

2004

About These Documentaries

Upland created 20 short documentaries about topics in science, design, technology, and their intersections.

For each, we started by doing careful research and planning so that we could in most cases do all the interviewing and filming in a single day and edit to final cut within a week.

Most were funded in part by Technology Review and shown on the magazine's website alongside articles on the same topic. We selected topics with its editor-in-chief, but then did the rest of the work completely independently.

A few were funded in part by Children's Hospital Boston and used to raise funds for the hospital's medical research.