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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

Am I dreaming...... I made it, FIRST TO COMMENT, thanks to airtel dat made the network stable nd mai charger for making my battery full. I believe I'm coming up FP things loading, back to d topic, hope it's existence can be controlled remotely because of nasty development....

They didn't give him a joystick,Any way we can send him to mars to check if there is water and methane n sexy aliens

Yes, I made it to the front page, am feeling like oba of all yoruba people

Nonso23: Great! Humans are making progress towards their doom advancement in cyborg tech.
But are those organs biologically active?

They are artificial organs that are biologically active.

Does 'he' have a soul? Or conscience?

God is great!

albacete: Does 'he' have a soul? Or conscience?

God is great!

Man will always come short in our attempt at creating a fellow man. We may come close but it will always fall short.

^^ GBAM

bad meat: They didn't give him a joystick,Any way we can send him to mars to check if there is water and methane n sexy aliens

The mars project will be a good use of such robots.

Nice work by the scientists.i see some people displaying their ignorance here wat do u mean by soul are u talking about d concept developd by some people in d dark age thousands of years ago with no evidence to support it.abeg dis is a nice development hope d ethical issues will be addressd properly

^^ If u don't believe humans have souls, what about conscience, or is that also a concept developed eons ago?

Maybe u need a clear definition of the word "ignorance".

Data from startrek.

tpia@:
Data from startrek.

hmm....

Nanesense

At the END I hope the mods won't ban me, cos this TIME I can boldly say that the THINGS my eyes have seen have made me speechless.

Hmmm, white. Una wan compete ryt?

albacete: Does 'he' have a soul? Or conscience?

God is great!

Was about to ask .
It can never be like whom God created.
Uwa Mmebi

Hmmm..End Time thinz

This is a mere robot with parts looking like real body parts....

Dem try!

Them suppose shot the scientist wei waste tax payers money to create this rubbish. Mtcheeew, I was even xpecting to see one tall guy not a robot.

infonubia:
Frank, however, does not have a liver, stomach, and intestines because they are too complicated to generate in a lab.

@ highlighted
It is no longer a 'man'

I know their plan. In third world war it will be humans fighting robots. God dey shaaa

3D Printing, the next level tech.

The world is indeed coming to an end......

I need two of these before Christmas.

Boys for my side dey form flousing with iPhone 5, galaxy s4, even techno. Dem dey form checking weather, even though rain never fall since.

Just wait till I show up with my i-Man, shut the whole block down.

"I-man bia, biko, go bring my small stout from the fridge."