'Bionic man' walks, breathes with artificial parts

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A team of Engineers have assembled a robot( a bionic man-  an artificial, typically electromechanical body) using artificial body organs, such as limbs, skin and other body parts. The come from 17 manufacturers around the world.
This is the first time they've been assembled this different artificial body parts together.
This is a brave attempt to show how far medical science has come.The robot is said to have about 60 to 70 percent of the function of a normal human. It stands six and half feet tall and can step, sit and stand with the help of a walking machine that's used by people who've lost the ability to walk due to a spinal injury; especially military men who got wounded in battle.
The robot also has a functioning heart, using an electric pump which beats and circulates artificial blood, which carries oxygen just like the human blood. Also the robot has artificial, implantable kidney.
Although the parts used in the robot work, many of them are a long way from being used in humans. The kidney, for example, is only a prototype. And there are some key parts missing: there's no digestive system, liver, or skin. And, of course, no brain.
The bionic man was modeled after Bertolt Meyer, a 36-year-old social psychologist at the University of Zurich who was born without his lower left arm and wears a bionic prosthesis. The man's face was created based on a 3D scan of Meyer's face. The cost of making this Bionic man was $1 million

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