Eythor Bender is the CEO of Berkeley Bionics, which augments humans with wearable, powered and artificially intelligent devices called exoskeletons or "wearable robots."

Inventor Anirudh Sharma is the founder of Graviky Labs, an MIT Media Labs spinoff.

Keith Kirkland is the cofounder of WearWorks, a company that builds products and experiences that communicate information through touch.

Kate Hartman creates devices and interfaces for humans, houseplants, and glaciers. Her work playfully questions the ways in which we relate and communicate.

A research scientist at Intel, Jennifer Healey develops the mobile internet devices of the future.

TED Fellow Suzanne Lee is a fashion designer turned biofabrication pioneer who is nurturing a global community of innovators growing materials.

Romain Lacombe creates technology to track and forecast air quality levels in real time.

Jonathan Rossiter develops soft robotic technologies and turns them into real robots and smart machines for engineers, musicians, doctors and artists.

Ani Liu explores the intersection between technology and sensory perception.

Rébecca Kleinberger is a voice expert pursuing research as a PhD candidate in the MIT Media Lab’s Opera of the Future group.

TED Resident Dan Gartenberg has spent his adult life trying to make seven and a half hours feel like eight hours.

As an MIT grad student, Pranav Mistry invented SixthSense, a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data.

TED Fellow Arnav Kapur invents wearable AI devices that augment human cognition and give voice to those who have lost their ability to speak.

Inspired by Mister Rogers, Sara DeWitt strives to make every child feel special by charting the forefront of new digital mediums where kids spend their time.

Blaise Agüera y Arcas works on machine learning at Google. Previously a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, he has worked on augmented reality, mapping, wearable computing and natural user interfaces.

Jiabao Li augments human sensation with her wearables and interactive installations, raising questions about technology's influence on perception, identity and emotion.

MIT Professor Rosalind Picard invents technologies that help people better understand emotion and behaviors that impact human health.

UPS's Julio Gil thinks that technology is flipping the equation on future cities, and that rural may soon become the new urban.

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