Bionic Animals Show Nature Knows Best

Bionischer Handling-Assistent

Festo - Bionic Handling Assistant - Animation

"The Bionic Handling Assistant is a light, free-moving “third hand” system. Thanks to its structural compliance, direct contact between humans and machines humans and machine is now no longer a danger..."

festo.com

Festo - Bionic Learning Network 2009

Bionic projects in the technical automation

Bionic Animals Show Nature Knows Best
Article by Melissa Breyer

 

 

"In news that gives a novel spin to the term “factory farming,” automation company Festo is launching a new concept: a robotic elephant trunk known as the Bionic Handling Assistant..."

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..But bionic animals for industry? Are we going too far? Do you think it’s cool or creepy?
 

Read this very interesting post >>>care2.com

Creating the Bionic arm

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CBS  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rloSSqiUCM 

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The DEKA Arm

Affectionately dubbed “Luke” (after Luke Skywalker),

the robotic arm is a DARPA funded project intended to restore functionality for individuals 

with upper extremity amputations. The project is still in development..

"You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is." -Dean Kamen

Time

The $28 Foot by Tim McGirk

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 http://www.time.com/time/reports/heroes/foot.html

ReWalk Bionic Legs

February 04, 2010 Ground-breaking robotic legs help paraplegics walk again.

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PigMine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVehGfI7Ka0

Imaging Imagine

Might be called Minimal Brain Activity yet a great discovery allowing communication beyond what was known.

The first scan at the CBU, 2005

 

Common supplementary motor area activation in volunteers who are asked to imagine playing tennis. We have previously reported similar responses in a patient diagnosed as vegetative state (Owen et al., Science, 2006)

 

Differences in brain metabolism measured in brain death and the vegetative state, compared with healthy subjects. Patients in brain death show an ‘empty-skull sign’, clearly different from what is seen in vegetative patients, in whom brain metabolism is massively and globally decreased (to 40-50% of normal values) but not absent. (Taken from Laureys, 2005)

 

 

Images from an fMRI machine showed that when the patient was asked a specific question and told to respond in a specific way, the same areas of his brain lit up as in a healthy person.

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Neuroscience Cambridge

 Dr Adrian Owen

 Daily Mail    Patient in a vegetative state 'talks' to scientists by Jenny Hope.

 Guardian.co.uk

Think tennis for yes, home for no: how doctors helped man in vegetative state

BBC News Vegetative state

Vegetative state patients can respond to questions by Fergus Walsh

Scholar pedia

Vegetative state