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Rex, a bionic man with working heart, lungs and human face

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The robo-arm guy, does he have total (mind) control over his hand, just like a real hand?

How much till he can make herself a human skull-crushing capable arm?
 
The feeling that I get is that synthetic mechanical cyborgs will never really be a big thing. I'm sure we'll get new organs, limbs and things, but I wager that when body part replacement becomes a mainstream feasible thing they'll be biological.
 
Dan said:
I guess it never really dawned on me, but they can successfully give people fully functional prosthetics to people who never had the limbs in the first place? That's pretty fucking awesome.
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I'm pretty confident we can't. I did a big project on human bionic stuff last year and I couldn't find a single thing about full functional prostheses. From what I could gather from a quick Google search, the arm is controlled by gestures and a remote(?). The site was actually pretty vague on how it was controlled. You'd need some way to translate signals in the brain to electrical signals that would control the movement of the hand, and I'm fairly sure we aren't able to do that very precisely yet.

This is about what we can do right now: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com...olled-prosthetics-that-can-open-a-clothespin/

No where near to what we see in the pictures. I'm not sure how this prosthetic arm works, but it isn't brain controlled or anything like that.
 
Skilotonn said:
Crazy.

Things are moving real fast technology-wise.
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Not so crazy. Bionics have been around since the 70s
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Gabotron ES said:
Question:
The robo-arm guy, does he have total (mind) control over his hand, just like a real hand?

How much till he can make herself a human skull-crushing capable arm?
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Things are going to be fun when super-powerful prosthetics are going to be mainstream. The paralympics are going to be called the technolympics or uberlympics. Normal athletes will saw off their hands & feet to stay competitive.
And forget concealed carrying, people will have Samus/MegaMan like arm-cannons.
 
scar tissue said:
Things are going to be fun when super-powerful prosthetics are going to be mainstream. The paralympics are going to be called the technolympics or uberlympics. Normal athletes will saw off their hands & feet to stay competitive.
And forget concealed carrying, people will have Samus/MegaMan like arm-cannons.
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so basically the olympics will be like the tour de france.
 
This is incredible. It's uncanny how the writers of science fiction stories like 'Blade Runner' were so close to reality back then.
 
Tha Robbertster said:
I'm pretty confident we can't. I did a big project on human bionic stuff last year and I couldn't find a single thing about full functional prostheses. From what I could gather from a quick Google search, the arm is controlled by gestures and a remote(?). The site was actually pretty vague on how it was controlled. You'd need some way to translate signals in the brain to electrical signals that would control the movement of the hand, and I'm fairly sure we aren't able to do that very precisely yet.

This is about what we can do right now: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com...olled-prosthetics-that-can-open-a-clothespin/

No where near to what we see in the pictures. I'm not sure how this prosthetic arm works, but it isn't brain controlled or anything like that.
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you are right: we can't. the fact that rex is a showcase of human body parts that were "copied" doesn't mean that they are 100% functional copies of said parts that would work within the human body.

rex is a showcase of what biotech has achieved until today and it is impressive - but we're nowhere near the 1 billion dollar man, or just replacing one limb.
 
The real story here is that badass scientist. His sleek metal arm, dapper full-length jacket, all coupled with his Hitler-chic haircut. We are living in Deus-Ex.
 
Tha Robbertster said:
I'm pretty confident we can't. I did a big project on human bionic stuff last year and I couldn't find a single thing about full functional prostheses. From what I could gather from a quick Google search, the arm is controlled by gestures and a remote(?). The site was actually pretty vague on how it was controlled. You'd need some way to translate signals in the brain to electrical signals that would control the movement of the hand, and I'm fairly sure we aren't able to do that very precisely yet.

This is about what we can do right now: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com...olled-prosthetics-that-can-open-a-clothespin/

No where near to what we see in the pictures. I'm not sure how this prosthetic arm works, but it isn't brain controlled or anything like that.
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Hmm, I see. So the pictures are deceptive. Ah well. It's still really exciting that there's been so much progress in recent years in these areas.
 
That scientist guy kinda looks like a supervillain.
 
Dan said:
Hmm, I see. So the pictures are deceptive. Ah well. It's still really exciting that there's been so much progress in recent years in these areas.
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Yeah, I'm really interested in this kind of stuff as well (Deus Ex played a part in this :lol). People at my university are actually looking into this stuff. They're making study subjects put on a helmet which can read brain activity and then make them do various movements. I guess they're searching for a repeating activated center in the brain. So for example, if a certain part of the brain shows activity when you flex your arm, for every person who makes the movement, you could try to link that activity to the flexing of the prosthetic arm.

Problems with this are that you'd have to implant a chip in the brain of the test subject, which of course is a very invasive procedure. Then you'd have to find a way to work around of the immune system, which can reject to foreign materials in the body. And these are only some of the problems. There are even more issues with implementing a full bionic arm (equivalent to a biological arm) in a human arm.

That said, I'm looking forward to seeing the development in this area (and hopefully researching it).
 
I hope I can get a bionic arm when my right arm finally gives out from arthritis and repetitive motion strain. I already have severe pains in it pretty frequently since my work revolves around precision mouse use.
 
progress is good, but until this shit can actually be implanted in a human body and be proven to be functional, they're just blowing smoke
 
It would be interesting when we reach the day where prostheses outperforms human body parts, in not only other things but longevity or replacing the body part with a new one through time be the way to longevity. Perhaps that would be one way that we would have human beings live longer, although I imagine some organs like the brain might not be replaced.
 
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