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Technology is changing sports for good — and creating bionic athletes — but how are competitive sports to sift through a future landscape where technology could make an athlete better after surgery than before? “In 20 years we’ll walk down the street and it’ll be common to see people running and jogging and wearing robots,” said Dr. Hugh Herr, the head of the Biomechatronics research group at MIT. “Maybe they’ll have a knee injury and want to jog without pain. Or they want to jog further since they don’t use as much energy. When they get to work they’ll take off their wearable robot and hang it on a coat rack.”

Technology is changing sports for good — and creating bionic athletes — but how are competitive sports to sift through a future landscape where technology could make an athlete better after surgery than before?

“In 20 years we’ll walk down the street and it’ll be common to see people running and jogging and wearing robots,” said Dr. Hugh Herr, the head of the Biomechatronics research group at MIT. “Maybe they’ll have a knee injury and want to jog without pain. Or they want to jog further since they don’t use as much energy. When they get to work they’ll take off their wearable robot and hang it on a coat rack.”

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