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DEFINITION
By definition A Normal heart patient with a pacemaker can be called a cyborg , that is, an organism with any artificial body part…
But the new age cyborgs are the organisms with electronic, mechanical and bionic implants in their body to aid the normal working of the whole body
INTRODUCTION
Kevin Warwick has taken the first steps on this path
In the years ahead we will witness machines with an Intelligence more powerful than that of humans
It will be a robot dominated world with dire consequences for humankind
CYBORGS AND ROBOTS
Robots, even after many developments, is still dumb machines working on some written commands and programs, and they cannot be completely human in behavior…
Cyborgs are not just super humans having extra abilities and mechanical body parts, but it’s a new approach having a wide range of applications and possibilities…
COMPARISONS WITH
ROBOTS
A robot is an automated machine while a cyborg is a combination of an organism with a machine.
Robots aren’t alive while cyborgs are.
Robots can be simple or very complex while cyborgs a retypically very complex.
Robots do not get tired while get tired
WHY CYBORGS….?
• Cyborgs are considered as the next step of
human evolution…
• A seed sized electronic implant can do many
functions which reduce a lot of human effort…
• Such an implant can replace credit cards,
passport, visa, and can make big changes in the
current lifestyle…
Returning Function Increased Strength Added Functionality Possibly Longer Lifespan Increased Intelligence/Computational
Power/Perception Enables one to lead a normal life Gives a part of the body back Improves the quality of life
CLASSIFICATION
Cyborgs are categorized into two types based on their structural and functional role play.
1 Individual Cyborgs
2.Social Cyborgs.
INDIVIDUAL CYBORG
Refer to a human with bionic, or robotic, implants
In prosthetic applications, C-Leg system developed by
Otto Bock HealthCare
2002, under the heading Project Cyborg, a British
scientist, Kevin Warwick
Neil Harbisson is sometimes claimed to be a Cyborg
“Cybernetic Organism" is used to describe
larger networks of communication and
control
Considered as an artificial intelligence that
makes use of replaceable human components
to function
Replaceable agents of their functionally
intelligent government institution
The term was coined by Manfred E. Clynes and
Nathan S. Kline in 1960 to refer to their
conception of an enhanced human being who
could survive in extraterrestrial environments.
In 2010, the Cyborg Foundation became the
world's first international organization dedicated
to help humans become cyborgs.
HISTORY
APPLICATION
S
MEDICINE
Restorative & Enhanced
Maximizing output and minimizing
input
BCI, provides a direct path
of communication from the brain to an
external device
Limitations on speed, strength,
endurance, and intelligence are
overcome
Artificial implementations
ARTIFICIAL IMPLIMENTATIONS
1. Artificial eyes or retinal implants.
2. Cochlear implants
3. Robotic and bionic body parts.
4. Artificial heart
COCHLEAR
IMPLANTS
• Cochlear implants may help provide hearing in patients that are deaf due to damage to sensory hair cells in their cochlea.
• It is an alternative method of treatment for profoundly deaf people, mostly children.
• It is estimated that in India, there are 1million profoundly deaf children and most of them still remains deaf….
COCHLEAR
IMPLANTS
One or more microphones which picks up sound
from the environment
A speech processor which
selectively filters sound to prioritize audible speech,
splits the sound into channels and sends the
electrical sound signals through a thin cable to the
transmitter,
A transmitter, which is a coil held in position by a
magnet placed behind the external ear , and
transmits power and the processed sound signals
across the skin to the internal device
by electromagnetic induction.
A receiver and stimulator secured in bone
beneath the skin, which converts the signals into
electric impulses and sends them through an
HOW IT WORKS…..??
RETINAL IMPLANTS
HOW IT WORKS….?
• Retinal implants are the
modern way of healing
blindness..
• In retina, we have light
detecting rod and cone cells.
And we place electrodes to
do the same function.
• The signals are then fed to
optic nerve and brain…
MILITARY
Utilization of Cyborg animals for the
purposes of a supposed tactical
advantage
DARPA is developing a neural implant
to remotely control the movement of
sharks
New surgical procedure to implant
artificial structures into insects during
their metamorphic development
ART
many artists have tried to create public awareness of cybernetic organisms
Stelarc is a performance artist who has visually probed and acoustically amplified his body
Wafaa Bilal is an Iraqi-American performance artist who had a small10 megapixel digital camera surgically implanted into the back of his head
DISADVANTAGES
Training is needed for doctors They are all expensive Psychological problems Feeling different to everyone else The risk of rejection/infection Pain during operation. It is not easy to identify where memory
is precisely located and how it is processed.
*FUTUREFrom the beginning, if we take a look at the history of computers, we can see the 1st computer, ANIAC was as large as a bedroom. And now, it is nothing more than something inside our palm..
Semiconductor manufacturers and scientists are in a constant rush for the smallest. The trend is of Minimization. Today the gadgets we carry, will be only in memory. The age where is no computers are not so far. All those we want will change their shape to implants and wearable computers…
YES… THE AGE OF MACHINES IS COMING…..
CONCLUSIONHuman Humans limited capabilities ,human sense
the world in a restricted way .
Even cyborgs has some major defects and wrong sides
as like any technologies evolving now days. Finally
I would like to say that if the future of intelligent robots,
then to protect mankind, we will must need some
TERMINATORs. They all are CYBORGS. Because
by making human CYBORGS.