My Extended Body - From Cyborgs to Robots to Cyborgs
Volume 1 - Issue 4
Rousi Rebekah*
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- Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Finland
*Corresponding author:
Rousi Rebekah, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Finland
Received: December 18, 2018; Published: January 03, 2019
DOI: 10.32474/ARME.2018.01.000118
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Opinion
Relationships between humans and technology are constantly
fraught with controversy, utopian idealism and in particular,
dichotomies. In a recent short communications article titled
“Insight into Bio Inspired Robotics” by Shaikh and Begum [1]
present a bio inspired model of robotics that among other things
includes soft robotics, plantoids and cyborgs. This is an interesting
article for many reasons, such as the mimicry of living organisms
to generate form and movement (biomimicry), inspiration from
nature to create intelligent robotics that exceed the imagination
in terms of their embodiment, and relevant to this short piece, the
relationship between robotics and humans. Often times cyborgs
and cyborgism are considered new concepts. Particularly in light
of movements such as body hackers, artists (Neil Harbisson, Moon
Ribas, Stelarc and active scientist-developers Steve Mann and
Kevin Warwick), the idea of the cyborg has become synonymous
with the implantation of information technology into the human
body. Discussions of the post-human focus on traits of artificial
construction and especially the role that information has on the
definition and framing of humans as a whole - the discourse and
representation of human groups see e.g., Haraway [2].
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