How bionics is going to change the future? How a blind man can benefit from science?

2. BIONICS : DEFINITION
• “A science concerned with the application of data about the functioning
of biological systems to the solution of engineering problems”
Merriam-Webster
• “The science of creating artificial systems or devices that can work as
parts of living organisms”
Cambridge Dictionary
• “Science of constructing artificial systems that have some of the
characteristics of living systems”
Britannica Encyclopedia

3. BIONICS : DEFINITION
• Hardware or machine parts
implanted in the human body
and acting as an interface
between our central nervous
system and the computer or
machinery connected to it

4. Cybernetics
• “Cybernetics is associated with models in which a monitor compares
what is happening to a system at various sampling times with some
standard of what should be happening, and a controller adjusts the
system’s behaviour accordingly”
American Society For Cybernetics
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR CYBERNETICS AMERICAN
SOCIETY FOR CYBERNETICS

5. • two sides of the same coin
• Both use models of living systems
• bionics in order to find new ideas for useful artificial machines and
systems, cybernetics to seek the explanation of living beings’
behaviour.

6. • Jack E. Steele (Jan 27, 1924 – Jan
19, 2009)
• US Air Force medical doctor
• investigated stress effects of motions,
sound and wind blast
• the word “BIONICS” in 1958

7. • American science fiction TV series
• 1973 to 1978
• about a former astronaut rebuilt with
superhuman strength, speed, and
vision due to bionic implants
• employed as a secret agent
• Martin Caidin's 1972 novel Cyborg

8. • Hugh Herr (born October 25, 1964)
• US rock climber, Er , biophysicist
• Prof at MIT
• 1982 – mountaineering accident and
frost bite
• B/L BKA
• 2011, TIME magazine :
“Leader of the Bionic Age”

9. Hugh Her and his World

10. Harvey and his Leg

11. Bionic
Hands
• sensors convey info about the state of the
hand and about its interactions with
objects
• sensing grasp force from the torque
exerted by the motors that drive the
fingers
• by directly sensing the force imparted on
the fingertips
• bottleneck for sensitization of bionic
hands -neural interface

12. Nika and her Bionic Hand

13. Bionic Eye

14. Larry and His Bionic Eye

16. Rex…

17. Future
• Artificial pancreas. Working in same way as the organ
• Additional senses.
• detect potentially harmful radiation in the atmosphere
• by 2035 -microchip inserted under your skin
• Bionic eye – just like a normal one

19. Why Do We Need Bionics….MDQ…?
• Disabled Normal Super Human
• it can help "fix" the condition
• Abilities that normal body parts can't do
• Most Imp: Feeling Normal like others.
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Psychosomatic symptoms
• Suicidal tendencies
• Personality Crisis