He walks, he talks and he has a beating heart, but he's not human — he's the world's first fully bionic man.
Scientists have developed the world's first robot human made up of entirely artificial parts and he can talk, walk and also has a beating heart. The robot costed about 1 million US dollars was assembled from prosthetic body parts and artificial organs donated by laboratories around the world, Roboticists Rich Walker and Matthew Godden of Shadow Robot Co in England put together the bionic man.
"You put a prosthetic part on a human who is missing that part. We had no human; we built a human for the prosthetic parts to occupy," Walker said.
The robot was modelled in some physical aspects after Bertolt Meyer, a social psychologist at the University of Zurich, in Switzerland, who wears one of the world's most advanced bionic hands.
The bionic man has nearly complete set of artificial organs including artificial heart, blood, lungs ( and wind pipe), pancreas, spleen, kidney and also functional circulatory system. However, he lacks a few major organs, including a liver, stomach and intestines, which are too complex to replicate in a lab.
The bionic man's brain can mimic certain functions of human brain. He has speech recognition and speech production systems. The engineers have equipped the bionic man with a sophisticated chat bot program which can carry on a conversation. The only problem is that it has the voice of a 13 year old boy.
The bionic man simulates about two-thirds of the human body but he lacks few major organs like liver, stomach and intestines which are very difficult to replicate in a lab.
The bionic man made his U.S. debut at New York Comic Con Oct. 10-13, and he will be on display at Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. this fall.
Scientists have developed the world's first robot human made up of entirely artificial parts and he can talk, walk and also has a beating heart. The robot costed about 1 million US dollars was assembled from prosthetic body parts and artificial organs donated by laboratories around the world, Roboticists Rich Walker and Matthew Godden of Shadow Robot Co in England put together the bionic man.
"You put a prosthetic part on a human who is missing that part. We had no human; we built a human for the prosthetic parts to occupy," Walker said.
The robot was modelled in some physical aspects after Bertolt Meyer, a social psychologist at the University of Zurich, in Switzerland, who wears one of the world's most advanced bionic hands.
The bionic man has nearly complete set of artificial organs including artificial heart, blood, lungs ( and wind pipe), pancreas, spleen, kidney and also functional circulatory system. However, he lacks a few major organs, including a liver, stomach and intestines, which are too complex to replicate in a lab.
The bionic man's brain can mimic certain functions of human brain. He has speech recognition and speech production systems. The engineers have equipped the bionic man with a sophisticated chat bot program which can carry on a conversation. The only problem is that it has the voice of a 13 year old boy.
The bionic man simulates about two-thirds of the human body but he lacks few major organs like liver, stomach and intestines which are very difficult to replicate in a lab.
The bionic man made his U.S. debut at New York Comic Con Oct. 10-13, and he will be on display at Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. this fall.
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