He walks, he says, his heart beats, but he is not a man – He is the first completely bionic creature in the world.
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Like a Frankenstein monster assembled from parts of a multitude tel, bionic man is an alloy of the most advanced human prostheses – from robotic limbs to artificial organs and synthetic circulatory system.
This creature was “revived” on October 20 at 18 pm.
Its creation was led by English robotics Rich Walker and Matthew Godden of Shadow Robot Co, collecting a bionic man from prostheses and artificial organs that many laboratories around the world.
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Nearly $ 1 Million Robot Modeled in Many physical aspects in the image of Bertolt Mayer, social psychologist from the University of Zurich, who wears one of the most advanced bionic hands in the world.
The new bionic man has the same prosthesis as Mayer’s – i-LIMB manufactured by Touch Bionics, with a rotating wrist and motors in every finger. Today its features just shocking.
The robot also has a pair of bionic knees and feet from the company BiOM from Bedford, Mass., Designed by Hugh bioengineer Herr from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which lost his legs after being captured by a strong a blizzard during his youth.
To support his artificial legs, a bionic man wears a robotic exoskeleton called “Rex” which is manufactured REX Bionics from New Zealand.
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But this does not end there – besides limbs, he has an almost complete set of artificial organs, including synthetic heart, blood, lungs (and trachea), pancreas gland, spleen, kidneys and a working circulatory system.
On top of that, the artificial “brain” of a bionic person can mimic some functions of the human brain. Him there are artificial eyes that give limited vision to the blind to people. He also has a cochlear implant, a system speech recognition and the actual speech system.
Engineers equipped the bionic man with a sophisticated program chatbot that can effectively support the conversation. The only problem is that, according to Walker, in her laid the identity of the “annoying 13-year-old boy from Of Ukraine. ”
But perhaps the most nervous part of a bionic man is his artificial face. It is an exact replica of the face. Mayer, however, when Mayer himself saw him, he hated with first glance, stating that it is “strange.”
As a result, a bionic man successfully mimics about two third of the human body. However, he lacks a few large organs, including the liver, stomach and intestines, which are still too complex to recreate in the lab.
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It should be said that the creation of this bionic man raises some ethical and philosophical questions: Is creating something so humanoid as a threat to our Understanding what it means to be human at all? How much improvements to the human body can be considered acceptable? AND how right is that only an exceptionally small amount people have access to such life-prolonging technologies?
The issue of access to such technologies is the most distressed, says Walker. “It reminds us that conservation life and the quality of life in our world have become a technical and economic issue. ”
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