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bionics, the study of living systems with the intention of applying their principles to the design of engineering systems. Drawing on interdisciplinary research in the mechanical and life sciences, bionics has been used to develop audiovisual equipment based on human eye and ear function, to design air and naval craft patterned after the biological structure of birds and fish, and to incorporate principles of the human neurological system in data-processing systems. Another application has been the development of experimental artificial limbs artificial limb, mechanical replacement for a missing limb. An artificial limb, called a prosthesis, must be light and flexible to permit easy movement, but must also be sufficiently sturdy to support the weight of the body or to manipulate objects. ..... Click the link for more information. that can be controlled by a person's thoughts and retinal implants consisting of an electrode array that receives visual data from an external camera. |
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| The Valencia-based Advanced Bionics supported the study and is creating electrodes for the surgically implanted device. Tokyo, Japan, Oct 4, 2005 - (JCNN) - The Glyco-Informatics Team, an in-house research unit of the Research Center for Advanced Bionics, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), has developed the world's first highly-sensitive, fast ricin (known as RCA60, caster bean-based biotoxin) detection technology, in collaboration with the Department of Forensic Science, National Research Institute of Police Science, National Police Academy. But notwithstanding their pleasing cohesiveness, these artifactual bodies remain too self-absorbed in their recurring internal functions to bother shedding their metaphorical load on the spectator--esthetic vitality does not amount to "beautiful bionics. |
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