[VID/PICS] World's First ‘Bionic Man’ A Reality, Can Breathe and Has its Own Heartbeat
He has blood, organs and prosthetic limbs, but he certainly isn't human. Scientists have created the closest-ever version of the "Bionic Man," the robot can breathe and perform other bodily functions with mechanical organs.
By nasreenasir — 10 Feb 2013, 10:36 AM — Updated about 11 years ago
The "Bionic Man" has between 60 and 70 percent the body function of a living human.
The parts come from 17 distributors spread across the globe, this is the first time they will be assembled into a humanoid machine. The parts will include a"working kidney and circulation system to cochlear and retina implants."
Researcher Bertolt Meyer, a lifelong user of prosthetic technology and the model for "Rex", the world's first "bionic man."
Image via nationalpost.com"(It's) an attempt to showcase just how far medical science has gotten," lead roboticist of the project and Richard Walker, managing director of Shadow Robot Co., told the AP.
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The robot was modeled after Bertolt Meyer, a social psychologist at the University of Zurich who was born without the lower part of his arm and now sports a "bionic prosthesis."
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It's over six feet tall and can walk with the help of a Rex walking machine normally prescribed to people who have suffered spinal injuries.
nbcnews.comAn electric heart pumps "blood" (which carries oxygen like human blood) through artificial veins. The robot even has a mechanical kidney.
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First bionic man goes public
The museum exhibit, which opens to the public on Thursday, will explore changing perceptions of human identity against the background of rapid progress in bionics—although Rex is not strictly bionic.
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Unveiled at a special exhibition at London’s Science Museum this week, the artificial human was created for a Channel 4 documentary called How to Build a Bionic Man. The project cost £640k ($1m).
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Scientists, among them the creators of “Rex” - the world's most complete bionic man, unveiled in London this week - believe they can now replicate about two-thirds of the human body.
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World's First Bionic Man
Rex, short for “Robotic Exoskeleton” according to Device Magazine, he has technology that allows him to hear, speak and move.
A mixture of Robocop and Frankenstein, Rex who has the face of a man is 6.5-feet tall with striking brown eyes.
Pushing the boundaries of robotics and medicine, Rex could help pave the way for the use of artificial organs for transplants in the future.
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Swiss psychologist Bertolt Mayer views 'Rex,' a two-meter tall artificial human, at the Science Museum in London. Mayer, who uses a prosthetic hand himself, was used as the model for the 'bionic man.
gmanetwork.comResearcher, Bertolt Meyer
The skull of Rex’s head is modeled on Bertolt Meyer, a Swiss psychologist, who has a bionic hand himself and also is the presenter of the British Channel 4 News documentary on this project.
The passive device he was fitted with at the time bears little comparison to the cutting edge prosthetic device he wears today as one of the first users of Touch Bionics' i-LIMB Pulse.
Born with a congenitally missing lower left arm, Bertolt Meyer was fitted with his first prosthetic device when he was only three months old.
Bertolt Meyer, a social psychologist from Switzerland who has a bionic hand himself met scientists working at the cutting edge of research to find out just how far this new technology can go.
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