{"id":134464,"date":"2022-01-21T12:44:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T20:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/the-cyborg-revolution-are-they-here-yet"},"modified":"2022-01-21T12:44:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T20:44:05","slug":"the-cyborg-revolution-are-they-here-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/the-cyborg-revolution-are-they-here-yet","title":{"rendered":"The Cyborg Revolution: Are They Here Yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-cyborg-revolution-are-they-here-yet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They are.<\/p>\n<p>The cyborgs are upon us. Turns out, they\u2019re more \u2018enhanced reality\u2019 and less \u2018science fiction.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In 1998, Professor of Cybernetics Kevin Warwick had a chip implanted in his body that would open electronic doors and turn on lights as he passed. In 2002, he had a 100 electrode array wired into the nervous system of his arm to allow him to remotely control an artificial hand. Today, he\u2019s working on using animal brain cells as a control system for robots.<\/p>\n<p>Performance artist Stelios Arcadiou (whose has changed his name to Stelarc) has spent 10 years growing an artificially-created ear that is surgically attached to his left arm. In 2009, Jerry Jalava, a Finnish computer engineer who lost part of a finger in a motorcycle accident, turned his prosthetic finger into a USB drive. Colorblind artist Neil Harbisson has an antenna that helps him to \u2018hear\u2019 colors. Avant-garde artist Moon Ribas had seismic sensors implanted in her feet that detect the vibrations caused by earthquakes, and records the data online. She then transforms that data into dance.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Cyborgs are already here. Ranging from a chip, to antenna and seismic sensors, humans have implanted them and iden.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/the-cyborg-revolution-are-they-here-yet\">Continue reading \u201cThe Cyborg Revolution: Are They Here Yet?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are. The cyborgs are upon us. Turns out, they\u2019re more \u2018enhanced reality\u2019 and less \u2018science fiction.\u2019 In 1998, Professor of Cybernetics Kevin Warwick had a chip implanted in his body that would open electronic doors and turn on lights as he passed. In 2002, he had a 100 electrode array wired into the nervous [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}