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A cyborg (cybernetic organism) is a theoretical or fictional being with both organic and biomechatronic parts. Some define that even the most basic technology that has a physical attachment to a human make them a cyborg. For example an artificial cardiac pacemaker or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator that help keep that person alive.

 

Prosthetic applications

•  C-Leg system created by Otto Bock HealthCare, replaces a human leg that has been amputated because of injury or illness. It uses sensors to try and copy the user’s natural gait to allow them to walk. Prostheses like the C-Leg and the iLimb are is the start of real-world cyborg applications.

• Also technology that allows humans that has lost senses to recover them:

Sound – Cochlear implants

Sense – Magnetic implants

Sight – Direct brain implants or cortex implants

 

 

Medicine

In medicine, there are two important and different types of cyborgs: the restorative and the enhanced.

• Restorative technologies "restore lost function, organs, and limbs" by repairing broken or missing processes to make it healthy or at average level of function. By 2004, a fully functioning artificial heart was developed.

• A brain-computer interface, or BCI, provides a direct path of communication from the brain to an external device, effectively creating a cyborg. It is implanted directly into the grey matter of the brain, which has been able to help paralyzed people, such as Locked-In syndrome.

• Enhanced - Military researching into using cyborg animals for the purposes of tactical advantage. Such as “cyborg insects" to transmit data from sensors implanted into the insect. The insect's motion would be controlled from a Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) and could conceivably survey an environment or detect explosives and gas.

 

 

Media

In popular culture, some cyborgs may be represented as visibly mechanical (e.g. the Cybermen in the Doctor Who franchise or The Borg from Star Trek or Darth Vader from Star Wars); or as almost indistinguishable from humans (e.g. the Terminators from the Terminator films, the "Human" Cylons from the re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica etc.). Cyborgs are also often portrayed with physical or mental abilities far exceeding a human counterpart (military forms may have inbuilt weapons, among other things).

 

 

Alternative 

The cyborg called Lobster, which is made not by using internal implants, but by using an external shell. Unlike human cyborgs that appear human externally while being synthetic internally, a Lobster looks inhuman externally but contains a human internally.