1. Hybrid Assistive Limb (FILES)
This file photo, taken on August 3, 2009 shows Japan's robotics company Cyberdyne personnel wearing the robot-suit "HAL" (Hybrid Assistive Limb) as they walk on a street in Tokyo for a demonstration. HAL was awarded a global safety certification on February 27, 2013, clearing the path for the nation's cutting-edge human robotic technology abroad. The certificate was awarded based on a draft version of ISO 13482, the first worldwide safety standard for personal robots. AFP PHOTO / FILES / Yoshikazu TSUNO
Hybrid Assistive Limb is a motorised exoskeleton which may let formerly wheelchair-bound persons walk again. Japan’s Tsukuba University and Cyberdyne (a Japanese corporation that’s reportedly unfamiliar with Terminator) invented HAL to not just assist persons with physical limitations but to enable them go beyond typical levels of physical capabilities. It operates by sensing weak signals from the skin and moving the joints depending on the impulses.
The exoskeleton enables users to lift five times the weight a typical human can lift. Imagine a future when exoskeletons are employed by firemen, soldiers, construction workers, miners and first responders. Imagine a world where losing a limb doesn’t entail diminished mobility. As of 2013, 330 suits were rented to 150 hospitals and comparable institutes in Japan. There’s a bright future ahead of us.
2. Neil Harbisson cyborgs
Neil Harbisson hears colors. You’re probably wondering “Wait, what?” Harbisson was born colorblind and can only sense the world in black and white. He had an antenna inserted in his brain which sticks out from the top of his head. This antenna enables him to detect colors by transposing the light frequencies from colors to sound frequencies. It’s even Bluetooth-enabled!
Harbisson likes listening to architecture, and he builds sound pictures of individuals, a phrase we’re shocked we can really write. A USB connector at the back of his skull enables him to charge his antenna, however he’s hopeful that soon he may charge his gadget wirelessly using energy created by his own body.
This eyeborg gadget not only enables Harbisson to feel colors in the usual spectrum as we all do, but it really allows him to sense infrared and ultraviolet hues. Harbisson’s incorporation of technology into his body increases his senses to a degree beyond what we consider normal, really making him a cyborg.
3. Nigel Ackland cyborgs
Nigel Ackland worked as a precious metal smelter, which is one of the greatest job titles ever, but smashed his arm in a work-related accident. He subsequently had to amputate part of the arm and is now one of 250 individuals utilising the Bebionic prosthetic arm, which is among the most sophisticated prosthetic arms built to date. After witnessing its elegant look it’s simple to understand why it’s acquired the moniker the Terminator Arm.
Ackland operates his prosthesis by flexing the muscles in the remaining portion of his arm; the movement is then picked up by a sensor in his bionic arm. Not only is he able to point, shake hands, and grasp a phone, but the technology is sophisticated enough that he can play with a deck of cards and even tie his shoelaces. Anyone anyone really want to offer him a handshake?
4. Kevin Warwick cyborgs
Captain Cyborg seems like the name of a cyborg pirate who would be at home in a low budget movie, but it really refers to cybernetics professor Kevin Warwick. No one obtains a moniker as fantastic as that simply by teaching cybernetics however; Warwick himself is a cyborg. Like, Amal Graafstra, Warwick has RFID chips implanted in his body.
Warwick also had electrode implants which connect with his neurological system, and he had a smaller electrode array inserted into his wife. These implants capture the signal from the neurological system, which effectively implies that he can pick up the feeling his wife experiences in her arm where the implant was implanted. Warwick has aroused quite a bit of controversy however - some think his work in cybernetics is a publicity ploy and done for amusement rather than concentrating on serious improvements in science.
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