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Ballroom dancer Adrianne Haslet-Davis lost her left leg in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. MIT Professor Herr said "we can rebuild her." He lost both legs from frostbite in a rock climbing accident, and knew what could be done.

So Herr’s lab launched a 200-day research study of the dynamics of dance — how dancers move and what forces they apply while they go. They embedded the fundamentals of dance into a bespoke limb, and you can see how her debut performance went below… <a href="#" rel="nofollow">TED2014 Video</a>
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Author Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA
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