The World's First Bionic Man With Heart And Circulatory System -

Meet Frank, a robot made of prosthetic
limbs and body parts. He has a beating
heart and complete circulatory system. He's
the world's first full Bionic Man to be
introduced at the Smithsonian's National
Air and Space Museum at Washington, D.C.
It's not fake. He's real...and he's the first!
Frank, the 'bionic man' is 6 feet and weighs
170 lbs. His face is made of synthetic parts
and modeled after Bertolt Meyer, a social
psychologists from the University of Zurich
in Switzerland. Meyer thought it was
awkward when he first saw his replica.
Meyer will also be hosting the documentary
created to show the making of Frank and
shed insight on the bionic man.
Frank's voice is similar to Siri on an Apple
iPhone, and his personality is programmed
to mimic a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy. This
robot cost a whopping $1 million. Not bad
at all, in comparison to many expensive
projects that scientists attempt which eats
up taxpayers' money. Frank has over 2/3rd
of the human body. He has an artificial
heart, a programmed, legs, pancreas, head,
see-through chest, and some body parts
you probably didn't know existed. These
artificial organs were actually donated from
laboratories around the world. So, it's a
joint effort of several global scientists.
Frank, however, does not have a liver,
stomach, and intestines because they are
too complicated to generate in a lab.
Frank's assembly took 3 months and was
directed by roboticists Rich Walker and
Matthew Godden of Shadow Robot Co. in
England. This is a ground-breaking
scientific development. Scientist and
roboticists never cease to amaze me.
I don't know if Frank is worth the cost of a
flight to Washington. Nevertheless, I'm
willing to check out the documentary
premiering on October 20. I'm interested in
knowing how these scientists replicated
Frank's prosthetic body parts.
The creation of this bionic man raises some
ethical questions: "Does creating
something so life-like threaten notions of
what it means to be human? What amount
of body enhancement should be allowed or
acceptable? And is it wrong that only some
people have access to these life-extending
technologies?
http://www.livescience.com/40535-show-
unveils-worlds-first-bionic-man.html
http://www.infonubia.com/2013/10/the-
worlds-first-robotic-man-with-heart.html

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