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Cyborg is short name of “cybernetic organism” .
It is a combination between man and machine.
Different from robot.
Used to repair or overcome physical and mental constraints.
It is used to refer to a
human with bionic, or
robotic.
Artificial objects such as
prosthesis are so closely
attached to human bodies
as to be considered as a
part of one’s body. Oscar Pistorious
The US-based company Backyard Brains released "The world's first commercially available cyborg" called the RoboRoach.
The kit allows students to use microsimulation to control the movements of a walking cockroach using a bluetooth-enabled smartphone as the controller.
A chip is designed which is made of electrodes is injected in the human body which gets in contact with the median nerve to record the reactions and is connected to signal processing so as to stimulate the reactions.
He is Professor of cybernetics
at the University of Reading.
He is the world’s first human cyborg , he implanted microchips under his arms so that he could easily communicate with computers and electronic devices at his laboratory.
Cyborg technology would be given artificial sight to blind people.
Used in military by soldiers.
It is used to establish intercommunication between two people or without using speech.
Chance of living for a long period of time.
Possibility of dying in the middle of the operation.
Metal corrosion leads to infection in the body.
There are chances for the hacking of chip and manipulating the information of militants.
They are expensive.
The cyborgs concept supports metaphors of living beings as machines.
It softens distinctions between human and animals, between organisms and machines.
From the relatively mundane starting point of cybernatics, the cyborg offers starting possibilities for the future.