Summary
Guillermo Herrera-Arcos is a biomechatronics researcher and engineer with nine years of experience designing wearable robots, prostheses, and neuromuscular interfaces to translate hard science into global health impact. As a graduate research assistant at MIT Media Lab’s Biomechatronics Group and a Neuralink alum, he blends hands-on hardware development with computational neuroscience to build controllers and interfaces that align robotic actuation with human biology. His undergrad work produced the first open-source pediatric exoskeleton in Mexico and a published EEG study of art perception in freely behaving subjects, showing a rare mix of clinical, hardware, and experimental neuroscience expertise. He has founded and advised startups, led productized exoskeleton adaptations for competition, and holds fellowships with AstraZeneca’s Young Health Programme and other global changemaker networks. Outside the lab he’s a taekwondo black belt, hiker, soccer player and salsa dancer—suggesting the same embodied curiosity that drives his work toward rehabilitative robots and therapeutics.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Houston
Graduate Program, Graduate Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Digital Systems and Robotics Engineering, Digital Systems and Robotics Engineering at Tecnológico de Monterrey
English, Spanish, German