Engineer Hugh Herr has made this his life's work. As a teenager. Herr's first pair of prosthetics severely limited his mobility. While those first prosthetics helped him walk, rock climbing, the sport he is most passionate about, was not possible fe knew he could make something better. so he got to work
Before long. Herr realized his prosthetic designs were actually stronger and more flexible than muscle and bone. They were also lighter in weight. which was a bias advantage when he was pulling himself up a mountain to fact white testing out the new designs. Fer was climbing) better and faster in his prosthetics than two ever had with nis biological legs The experience changed the way he thought about prosthetics and athletics?