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He goes, he talks and his heart beats, but he doesn’t simple man – he is the first completely bionic man in the world! Bionic man – a robot made from a mixture of the most modern human prostheses. Starting from limb robots, ending with artificial organs (including blood and system blood circulation). “Parents” of an artificial person – robotics Matthew Walker and Godin Shadows, during their interview, said: “Our the challenge was six weeks from a huge collection of artificial body parts: organs, limbs, eyes, heads – create full-fledged bionic man. However, this task was not simple since we did not install dentures for the missing parts body on a living person, and created it from prostheses. ” a living robot cost almost $ 1 million. His hands are advanced bionic prostheses, hands and fingers of which are free rotate thanks to special motors hidden inside. Ankles and feet of a robot – development by an engineer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which he himself used these dentures, because he lost his legs as a result of hypothermia, as a teenager. To support prosthetic legs, the robot wears Rex exoskeleton developed in New Zealand. However his Frankenstein himself might envy a clumsy jerky gait. But that is not all. Also, the bionic man is equipped practically a full set of artificial organs, including: artificial lungs, heart, blood, pancreas, spleen, kidneys and functional circulatory system. Artificial The heart of the SynCardia robot has previously been implanted more than 100 times. people with heart disease, for the period of time while they were waiting transplantation. The circulatory system created by the medical researcher Alex Sifalian, composed of veins and arteries, made from a polymer that is widely used to create many other synthetic organs. Bionics man can even quite successfully imitate some functions of the human brain. It is equipped with a retinal prosthesis that helps people with limited vision and even blind. Also mounted in the robot’s brain cochlear implant for speech recognition and its system. Engineers equipped the bionic man with a complex bot program, in as a result, he can independently conduct a conversation. Also a robot successfully simulates about two-thirds of the movements of the human body. But he lacks several important organs, including the liver, stomach and intestines that are very difficult to artificially create them in the laboratory. The existence of a bionic man poses a number of philosophical and ethical questions: Can robots threaten humanity? What does it mean to be human? Is it right that only some people have access to technology, prolonging life?
Translation by Sergey Vasilenkov
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