Designing intelligent robots by upgrading humans
001. Replace limbs, fix broken retinas, fix broken cochleas, add functionality to the human brain until we
finally have replaced everything and have a fully inorganic Turing Android.
002. Work on adding electronics in order to improve the memory and processing speed of the human
mind. This would be the "Create Cyborgs" approach.
National Geographic p58 Feb 2007 shows CardioWest artificial heart which runs off of electricity.
The CardioWest heart, made by SynCardia systems, is far from ideal. Patients must be tethered to a
large, noisy pump for weeks or months until a donor heart is found. It was almost shelved because so
many patients had severe side effects. But a new study in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine
found that the artificial heart enabled 79% of 81 heart recipients to survive long enough to get a
transplant, compared with 46% of 35 patients who did not receive the heart.
www.syncardia.com/
Artificial hip
www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/artificialhips1.shtml#how's_the_operation_done?
Artificial arm
Artificial pancreas
Artificial cochlea
Artificial retina
Parkinson's disease fixed by inserting electronic stimulation
US bar assoc Juvenile minds
http://www.abanet.org/crimjust/juvjus/Adolescence.pdf
Gorilla sign language:
http://www.koko.org/world/signlanguage.html
Washoe sign language:
http://bowland-files.lancs.ac.uk/chimp/langac/LECTURE4/4asl.htm
001. Replace limbs, fix broken retinas, fix broken cochleas, add functionality to the human brain until we
finally have replaced everything and have a fully inorganic Turing Android.
002. Work on adding electronics in order to improve the memory and processing speed of the human
mind. This would be the "Create Cyborgs" approach.
National Geographic p58 Feb 2007 shows CardioWest artificial heart which runs off of electricity.
The CardioWest heart, made by SynCardia systems, is far from ideal. Patients must be tethered to a
large, noisy pump for weeks or months until a donor heart is found. It was almost shelved because so
many patients had severe side effects. But a new study in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine
found that the artificial heart enabled 79% of 81 heart recipients to survive long enough to get a
transplant, compared with 46% of 35 patients who did not receive the heart.
www.syncardia.com/
Artificial hip
www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/artificialhips1.shtml#how's_the_operation_done?
Artificial arm
Artificial pancreas
Artificial cochlea
Artificial retina
Parkinson's disease fixed by inserting electronic stimulation
US bar assoc Juvenile minds
http://www.abanet.org/crimjust/juvjus/Adolescence.pdf
Gorilla sign language:
http://www.koko.org/world/signlanguage.html
Washoe sign language:
http://bowland-files.lancs.ac.uk/chimp/langac/LECTURE4/4asl.htm
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