Cyborg-Cybernetic Organism

Prashant Patel
CS-575

Overview:
History
Steve Mann
E-Y-E-T-A-P
Kevin Warwick
Cyborg 1.0
Cyborg 2.0

What is Cyborg?
A cyborg is a cybernetic organism.
The term cyborg is defined as an
organism that is a self-regulating
integration of artificial and natural
systems.
A human cyborg is a human who has
certain physiological processes aided
or controlled by mechanical or
electronic devices
History:
The idea of a man-machine mixture
was popular in science fiction before
World War II
In 1960 Manfred Clynes and Nathan
Kline had combined the words
cybernetics and organism to form a
new term: cyborg

Steve Mann:
Steve Mann is a tenured professor a
the department of electrical and
computer engineering at the
University of Toronto.
Many newspaper have described him
as the Worlds first Cyborg.from his
early work with wireless wearlable
webcams.
E-Y-E-T-A-P
Electric eyeglasses
Traditional eyeglasses modify what
we see optically, so the refraction of
the glass is what limits us in terms of
the amount of processing that we
can do to correct our vision.
EYETAP can do more kinds of
processing

Cont:
One of its function is a wearable
face recognizer to help people with
Alzheimer's recognize and remember
and see things, or people with visual
memory disability find their way
around .
Goal of this project is to help people
see better and remember things
better.
Cont..:
With eyetap you can see the
individual person but you might also
see other information.
a sort of biographical data.
Ex.: you can associate a name with a
face, so that it can help to not forget
faces.

Kevin Warwick:
Kevin Warwick is Professor of
Cybernetics at the University of
Reading
the world's leading expert in
Cybernetics
Mainly interested in connecting
human brain with machine brain.

Why Interested in this?
Calculation
Human Memory
Limited Senses
Ultrasonic Singal
Infrared Signal
Ultraviolet Signal
X-ray-we convert it into Visual picture
to understand
Cont..:
3 Dimension Limitation.
Example of 5 Dimension problem.
Serial Communication
-Cant Communicate with more
persons together.

Cyborg1.0
A Simple RFID transmitter being
implanted in Mr. Warwicks skin.
It doesnt carry any battery but it receives
power through coil.
And after that he used to control doors,
lights, heaters and other computer-
controlled devices based on his proximity.
The main purpose of this experiment was
to test the limit of the body would accept
and how easy it would be to receive a
meaningful signal from the chip.
How it Can be helpful?:
It gives you a unique code.
It is quite possible for an implant to
replace an Access, Visa or bankers
card
An implant could carry huge amounts
of data on an individual, such as
National Insurance number and
blood type, blood pressure
Cont..:
clocked in and out of office
automatically.
Find the exact location of the person
in the office.
Useful for the car security.
Car remain disabled unless it recognized
the unique signal from its owner.


Cyborg 2.0
In 2002 a one hundred electrode array
was surgically implanted into the median
nerve fibres of the left arm of Professor
Kevin Warwick.
A number of experiments have been
carried out using the signals detected by
the array.
As a result of this professor warwick was
able to control light, electric wheel chair
and an intelligent artificial hand.
Cont..:
As this implantation goes success
one chip is implanted into his wifes
median nerve.
Result


Future work:
Robot will be controlled by a
biological brain.
brain to brain communication
For that brain implant is required.
In the field of medical technology,
devices known as prosthetics have
been developed to replace or aid
failing body parts. Prosthetic devices
have been created to assist and
restore an alarming variety of body
parts, including skeletal and joint,
organs (cardiovascular, kidney, cell)
neural (brain, vision, auditory), and
aesthetic or cosmetic.
What will humans gain from
advances in cyborg technology? Will
these benefits be worth the potential
risks? In order to answer these
questions we will explore some data
from various sources on heart
failure, kidney disease and assisted
technology devices.
Heart failure is estimated to afflict
approximately 5 million Americans. This
number is expected to double within the
next five years.
Heart failure causes or contributes to an
estimated 290,000 deaths per year.
According to the National Kidney
Foundation, 20 million Americans - 1 in 9
US adults - have CKD(chronic kidney
disease) and another 20 million more are
at increased risk
With the aid of cyborg technologies, humans gain
the ability to prolong their lives and assist
otherwise failing parts of the body. In 2001 the
FDA approved a new type of pace maker that
sends specially timed electric impulses to the
heart's lower chambers. Medtronic studied use
of the device in 579 patients with moderate to
severe congestive heart failure at 44 medical
centers in the U.S. and Canada Overall, the
majority of the patients in whom the pacemaker
was turned on showed improvement in either
quality of life scores, distance they were able to
walk or their heart failure classification.
Approximately one third of patients in the control
group also saw improvement
The benefits of cyborg technology
are vast and are expanding, and are
helping people live normal lives and
in some cases give a human a better
advantage physically.
a tiny digital video camera replaced
the eyes of a blind man
Brain stem and cochlear implants
enable deaf people to hear again