Comments on: Building a "bionic man"

By: Jayarava

Jayarava — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:13:00 +0000

Some bionic man – he can only go as far as his power cables allow, and trailing that massive pump under the chair. But contrast a tiny fruit fly is a model of elegant design, completely sell powering and guiding, and can reproduce. Hell, an amoeba is more impressive than this guy.

By: Florian Bösch

Florian Bösch — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 14:40:00 +0000

“We’ve determined that your head is broken beyond repair. It would be easiest if we replaced it whole”

By: cfuse

cfuse — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 14:03:00 +0000

Medically diagnosed ugliness.

By: eldritch

eldritch — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 01:33:00 +0000

So this isn’t a research piece? It’s just sitting in a museum? That’s a darn shame.

It would be so much more worthwhile to just donate it to the Mythbusters.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 01:13:00 +0000

If I understand this project correctly it’s not really a robot so much as an assemblage of high-tech “replacement parts” currently available for human beings. I wonder who has the current record for the greatest number of gizmos installed.

By: Florian Bösch

Florian Bösch — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 01:07:00 +0000

I wonder what the head prosthesis is used for…

By: Sarge Misfit

Sarge Misfit — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:40:00 +0000

Yep. And “bio” in bionic :-) In fact, aren’t they interchangeable terms?

By: Ian Wood

Ian Wood — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 23:36:00 +0000

Abby Normal.

By: Nick Harvey

Nick Harvey — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 21:48:00 +0000

This reminds me of a bit of short fiction I read somewhere on the net, which involved the theft of many high tech prosthetic devices, cochlear implant, artificial heart, etc, to build a complete person. Not sure where the brain came from.

By: Romeo Vitelli

Romeo Vitelli — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 21:41:00 +0000

That’s where the “org” in “cyborg” is supposed to come in.

By: Sarge Misfit

Sarge Misfit — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 21:18:00 +0000

That’s not bionic. That’s a robot. To be bionic it has to have a biological component

By: GlyphGryph

GlyphGryph — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 21:10:00 +0000

In just seven days…

By: efergus3

efergus3 — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 21:06:00 +0000

I don’t think that this is what Dr. Frank-N-Furter had in mind.

By: mtdna

mtdna — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:38:00 +0000

Not nearly as impressive as Sesame Street’s Six Dollar Man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrAFle0W228

By: Frank266

Frank266 — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:09:00 +0000

Does he fight sasquatch in this video?

By: plyx

plyx — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:53:00 +0000

Why does it have Eric Bana’s face?

By: Sam Ley

Sam Ley — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:28:00 +0000

Disturbingly reminiscent of a humanoid robot a friend of mine made. It didn’t simulate the functioning of the pancreas, but it was dressed in a clown suit, had a rubber face perpetually trapped in the “O” expression and a throbbing, rotating member. If you sat on its lap it would penetrate you, grip you tightly with its robotic arms, and scream while the head spun around.

I declined to test its full functionality.

By: sqyntz

sqyntz — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:26:00 +0000

if it doesn’t make the Six-Million-Dollar-Man-Bionic-Sound it’ll never catch on