History of Bionics, which is the latest technology combination of electronics, robotics, and human physiology.

1. Ibrahim KAZANCI
www.KAZANCI.ca
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2. What is bionics?
• The latest technology combination of electronics,
robotics and human physiology
• Involves fictional parts capable of doing thigs
that no average human body parts can do

3. History
• The first concept of bionics was
put forward by Jack E. Steele in
1958
• He was an American doctor who
coined the word bionics
• It was then popularized by US
television series the one million
dollar man

4. First experiment
• The first experiment
was performed by
Joseph Murray in
Boston city of the USA
in 1954
• Transplant then first
came when artificial
kidney was made by
German researcher
William Colb in 1943

5. Popular Implementation of bionics
Brain
Eyes
Ears
Heart
Limbs
Tendons

6. Brain
• Dr. Theodore Berger has been developing
a device that can be implemented in
human brain
• This can help restoring memories,
modelling complex neural activity that
take place in hippocampus
• Microchips are being tested that can be
used to encode memories

7. Eyes
• Eyesight of people suffering from blindness
have been successfully restored
• Chips lined with electronic sensors are
implemented
• Light hits these sensors, they produce
electrical impulses that pass into the optical
nerve behind the eye and into the brain
• Miikka Terho was the first person to implant
eyes

8. Ears
• Cochlear implants turn sound into
electronic pulses that are
transmitted to the brain
• The devices are unable to tune in
specific sounds
• Patient may have to struggle while
hearing sound in noisy areas
• Scientists at La Trobe University,
Australia, have made device that
function more likely to human ear

9. Limbs
• Patrick Kane a 13 year old
boy was transformed into
bionic boy and fitted a
prosthetic arm
• Researchers are working on
prosthetic limbs that will allow
wearers even more control
• Movement can be made or
controlled by human thoughts

10. Tendons
• Artificial tendons are being developed at
Manchester university
• Finely spun made up of plastic fibers are
being used
• This behaves just like the natural tissues
implemented into human body restores
movements
• Preclinical trail are started and are expected
to come in markets in 5 years

11. Heart
• Use of artificial heart are widely popular
because of replacement of one of main
component of the body .i.e. heart
• These helps damaged organs in pumping
blood to the body
• 1st permanent implementation was done
to 15 year old boy
• Company in France have developed
prototype for a fully artificial heart that
would replace the organ altogether

12. Ibrahim KAZANCI
www.KAZANCI.ca
www.QUALITIA.ca