climbing and we got struck by a tremendous blizzard. and what we intended to be a single day outing was a four-day. i suffered severe frostbite to my lower limbs and after months of effort, my medical team gave up the fight to save the biological limbs. it is a deeply personal quest for you, as well. yeah. it s funny. i was a terrible high school student. at best i got cs. i often got fs. and then my accident happened when i was 17 and just inspired me to begin to develop prosthetic limbs for myself and for other people. losing both legs, it s a lot for anyone to overcome. but with hugh, it lit a fire. whenever i sprint up stairs with my bionic legs, at the top i giggle. i mean, i m i grew up with
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walk down the street instead of watching the ground of where i am stepping. it is being a normal person again. it is fantastic. you can t beat it. i found that i walk and then i could actually help advance technology that people will use in my lifetime. i can see the direct results of my invention and my ideas on the world. it is fun both being the scientist and the professor and also the entrepreneur. i can directly affect society in the short-term. this is a exoskeleton designed for running.
the most advanced prosthetics in the world. he knows the way of the modern technology to help the patients and he knows this in part because he s done it himself. my name is hugh herr. i m a professor at m.i.t. we develop robots that attach to the body. here at m.i.t. hugh herr develops advanced prosthetic limbs. rehab medicine, no one has done more to bring the future to the here and now. as you can see, hugh has a personal stake in this world. back when he was a kid, all he wanted to do was climb mountains. by the age of 12, 13, i was considered a child prodigy in climbing. i was climbing walls that had never been climbed before. but then at age 17 in 1982 i was mountain
very narrow view of what beauty is. a beautiful woman kind of looks like this and a beautiful mankind of looks like this. in that future you can have all kinds of different human beings with body types and different types of minds and it won t be ugly. because it won t the conversation won t be about disability. it will be about capability, about ability. about expression. i call it the death of normalcy. hugh herr is changing the way we see disability and turning what can be a tragedy in many people s lives into a triumph. we live in a day and age it is possible if you suffer a leg amputation to go back to an active lifestyle, and i ask cnn viewers to go to no barriers boston.org and if one is able, to help us, to donate funds for this important cause.