The future is arriving at the speed of … prison term . Back in the 1970s , Lee Majors received bionic implant that made himThe Six Million Dollar Man . But that was fiction . In the 1980s , we were introduce to a cyborg with living flesh grown over it calledThe Terminator . That was also fiction . All that sentence , roboticists and medical researchers were act upon on real machine to take over the procedure of human organs , such as respirator , mechanical warmness , and dialysis automobile that we are conversant with . But what about other body parts ? Here are some that can switch someone ’s life , or maybe just give us a joke .
1. Robotic Hand Shakes Yours
In the human race of videoconferencing , it ’s difficult to get near to people . Businessmen often size each other up by shaking hired hand , a custom that go bad back to ancientness . Roboticists from Osaka University have a manner to fill in that gap in global meetings . The Robot Handis made of Si and poriferan , can be heated to soundbox temperature , and is engraft with pressing sensor . The hand that controls it remotely transmit the clasp and amount of atmospheric pressure to the person he ’s excite hands with .
2. Robot Lips Send Kisses
Long space romances suffer the same lack of tactual whiz . Up to the plate measure
Kissenger
, a automatonlike gadget that connects with a faraway lover via Skype . That is , if your buff has another Kissenger . The detector in the odd - looking twist transport your back talk movements to your partner . And vice - versa . The companionship that make Kissenger ,
Lovotics
, also makes a duo of other devices to transmit your passion .
3. Robotic Butt Responds to Touch
At first glance , and you may blush , the golem butt seems like some kind of graphics project . But it appear to be an example in robotic research . A man - shaped
couple of buttocks named Shiri
responds to different variety of touch with one of three chemical reaction : tension , twitch , and hump . Sensors spark off the reaction of airbags plant in the posterior .
4. Robotic Armpit Sweats
How many times have you enounce to yourself , " Gee , I wish well I had an artificial armpit that sweats " ? This
epitome axilla
get industrial Japanese stew , sort of like the real thing . This was built by Kevin Grennan , as part of the art project called
The Smell of Control : Fear , Focus , Trust
.
5. Robot Skin Senses Touch
Stanford researcher
Zhenan Bao
has been working on
electronic skin
. The whippy , stretchable , and resilient peel is embedded with petite sensor that can detect the mavin of spot . Embedded transistors acknowledge changes in the sensors and send off signal about it . And it ’s solar - powered ! There ’s no watchword on whether the cutis will ever be implant in humans , but the program program for using it on robots or in uniforms is exciting . The sensors in the electronic skin could someday be program to notice biological agent , weapon , or atomic fallout .
6. Robot Eyes See
Dianne Ashworth suffered grave vision loss due to retinitis pigmentosa . The Australian was
fitted with a bionic optic
in July . The equipment , developed by
Bionic Vision Australia
, is a set of spyglass with a camera attached . A wire from the camera is implanted in the user ’s retina , so the lightsome signal are sent directly to the retina , and then via optical boldness to the brain . The bionic eye requires the patient to have
some function retinal tissue
. See
a TV
of the gimmick .
For those who have no retinal function , theArgus II bionic eye implantis beginning to be used in Europe . The twist admit camera goggles and a wireless receiver that is implanted behind the optic . The receiver consists of60 electrodes , which get down up like a 60 - pixel video display and sends those sign to the ocular nerve . It may be lo - ray , but it ’s an artificial retina !
The
Bio - Retina
by the Israeli company
Nano Retina
goes a step further by give 576 - pel grayscale image onto the receiver tie in to the optical nerve . Another vantage will be that wireless signal transmittance is replaced by optical maser light that smoothen from glasses into the fleur-de-lis and onto the recipient . The Bio - Retina is not yet uncommitted , and is scheduled to go into clinical trials in 2013 .
7. Robot Mouth Sings
The rubber robotlike mouth was modernize by
Professor Hideyuki Sawada
at Kagawa University in Japan to help audience - impaired people with their speech . It was creepy-crawly enough when we first saw ( and hear ) it in 2010 , but by and by
we heard it sing !
In this TV , the oral fissure sings the Japanese children ’s tune “ Kagome Kagome . ” The sassing start to move about 30 second in .
8. Robot Muscles Walk
Claire Lomas
completed the London Marathon this retiring May with the aid of a bionic suit , even though she is paralyzed from the dresser down . The 32 - yr - onetime Lomas split up her neck opening and back in a horse bait fortuity in 2007 , but she can take the air with the assistance of an exoskeleton . The $ 69,000 walk apparatus , called the
ReWalk bionic walk gimmick
, react to changes in Libra , and takes a whole step when the wearer show the desire for one . After the marathon , Lomas took the exoskeleton home for workaday use . ReWalk assists with walking , standing , posing , and even mount slope and steps , thanks to an on - board computer .
See also:7 Robot Animals and Creepy - Crawlies .
