Mary Shelley, who we know so well for her book Frankenstein , may be turning over in her grave right now. She tried to warn us about the dangers of creating artificial life in a lab, but that’s not stopping scientists and roboticists from making this innovation happen.
Now, the world’s first bionic man has been created using 28 prosthetic parts that people are already using all over the world.
The bionic man. (Image via Smithsonian Channel)
The Smithsonian Channel will broadcast a series about the creation of the bionic man beginning October 20.
The bionic man was developed by roboticists Richard Walker and Matthew Godden, with the help of Professor Alexander Seifalian, who was responsible for the creation of artificial organs. Dr. Bertolt Meyer, a psychology professor who has been using a prosthetic hand since he was just three months old, was chosen to be the human model for the bionic man. The robot’s face was even designed to mimic his.
Bionic man's face was created to look like Dr. Bertolt Meyer's. (Image via Smithsonian Channel)
The bionic man comprises one million sensors, 200 processors, 70 circuit boards, and 26 individual motors. He’s made entirely of prosthetics and critical synthetic organs, as well as a full circulatory system. He even has fake blood pumping through him.
Check out all of his parts in the diagram below.
(Image via Smithsonian Channel)
Hi-tech prosthetics usually depend on electrical signals from the body in order to determine what they should do. Since there is no live human body attached to each prosthetic, the team had to develop software that can take the place of human electrical signals.
Currently, the bionic man has no brain, but researchers are working on that now, so soon he may be smarter than you.
Learn more about the bionic man and his creators here.
Watch the video below from the bionic man’s appearance at the London Museum back in March.
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