Meet
Frank, a robot made of prosthetic limbs and body parts. He has a
beating heart and complete circulatory system. He's the world's first
full Bionic Man to be introduced at the Smithsonian's National Air and
Space Museum at Washington, D.C.
It's not fake. He's real...and
he's the first! Frank, the 'bionic man' is 6 feet and weighs 170 lbs.
His face is made of synthetic parts and modeled after Bertolt Meyer, a
social psychologists from the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Meyer
thought it was awkward when he first saw his replica. Meyer will also
be hosting the documentary created to show the making of Frank and shed
insight on the bionic man.
Frank's voice is similar to Siri on
an Apple iPhone, and his personality is programmed to mimic a
13-year-old Ukrainian boy. This robot cost a whopping $1 million. Not
bad at all, in comparison to many expensive projects that scientists
attempt which eats up taxpayers' money. Frank has over 2/3rd of the
human body. He has an artificial heart, a programmed, legs, pancreas,
head, see-through chest, and some body parts you probably didn't know
existed. These artificial organs were actually donated from laboratories
around the world. So, it's a joint effort of several global scientists.
Frank,
however, does not have a liver, stomach, and intestines because they
are too complicated to generate in a lab. Frank's assembly took 3 months
and was directed by roboticists Rich Walker and Matthew Godden of
Shadow Robot Co. in England. This is a ground-breaking scientific
development. Scientist and roboticists never cease to amaze me.
