The topic which was of my personal interests is robotic prosthetics. The capability of being able to lose a limb and having the opportunity to get a prosthetic which is able to pick up signals and move to yours demand is something that most paraplegics would give anything to obtain and be put on the course to getting a limb tested for them. Now the technology which was shown to us in lecture today was breath-taking to see and very comforting to know that if a freak accident was to god forbid happen we are finally getting to the stage of evolution whereby we are not just left to deal with our mishaps instead we can stand up and take charge. The question always floats about in relation to morals on if it is right to have a robotic limb such as the 2006 creation ‘bionic devices’ which are controlled by the mind. Can the piece of technology go wrong and end up ripping other limps off? Can we trust computers and robots? Half man half cyborg, could this be the direction our race is moving towards? Would people go to such lengths to take a limb away to add a more enhanced and more powerful robotic limb which would be able to learn new motion as you work with it and while mastered be able to exceed human limb capability.
Now with so much warfare we are seeing more and more war veterans coming home to a life changing consequences after losing limbs which they would need to use on day to day activities. With new technology they are treated with more success rate and it becomes less of a drag when you have a super bionic arm which can punch through wall I guess? But on a serious note these type of technologies in my opinion are life changing to so many people and we would need to start mass producing them so that everyone on a limb transplant in entitled to have that type of movement and the right not to be paralyzed.
The topic which was of my personal interests is robotic prosthetics. The capability of being able to lose a limb and having the opportunity to get a prosthetic which is able to pick up signals and move to yours demand is something that most paraplegics would give anything to obtain and be put on the course to getting a limb tested for them. Now the technology which was shown to us in lecture today was breath-taking to see and very comforting to know that if a freak accident was to god forbid happen we are finally getting to the stage of evolution whereby we are not just left to deal with our mishaps instead we can stand up and take charge. The question always floats about in relation to morals on if it is right to have a robotic limb such as the 2006 creation ‘bionic devices’ which are controlled by the mind. Can the piece of technology go wrong and end up ripping other limps off? Can we trust computers and robots? Half man half cyborg, could this be the direction our race is moving towards? Would people go to such lengths to take a limb away to add a more enhanced and more powerful robotic limb which would be able to learn new motion as you work with it and while mastered be able to exceed human limb capability.
Now with so much warfare we are seeing more and more war veterans coming home to a life changing consequences after losing limbs which they would need to use on day to day activities. With new technology they are treated with more success rate and it becomes less of a drag when you have a super bionic arm which can punch through wall I guess? But on a serious note these type of technologies in my opinion are life changing to so many people and we would need to start mass producing them so that everyone on a limb transplant in entitled to have that type of movement and the right not to be paralyzed.
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