So says award-winning designer bionic Hugh Herr, one of the leaders in the design of prostheses that incorporate computers, motor and autonomous functions
The designer bionic Hugh Herr warns that the only danger he sees for the future is of a society that accepts that disability is inherent to life, because throughout this century, the technology will be able to remove the limitations that having a human body.
“In this century there will come a time when you don’t have to tolerate anymore the limitations of our bodies, so that we can eliminate the faults of the same” through the advances which may offer the bionic, noted Herr, a mechanical engineer and biophysical u.s., known as the man with bionic.
In fact, in a press conference held in Oviedo (Spain) this week, the world leader in the design and development of the prostheses most advanced, said that, in spite of having no legs, does what he wants and gives him the win, including climbing.
This expert mountain climber, who lost both legs at the age of 17 when he was caught for three days in a snow storm, came to Oviedo to receive tomorrow the Award of Princess of Asturias of Scientific and Technical Research 2016, an award that was granted to him for having contributed much to accelerate the man-machine integration.
however, he acknowledged that only 15% of the people who need this type of prosthesis can access them in the united States, for the cost that they have, but just as mobile phones have become less expensive over time and are used now by millions of people around the world, the same thing will happen with intelligent prostheses that mimic amputated limbs.
In a period of 50 years, according to forecasts from researcher( who has developed the first legs bionic that mimic perfectly the human movement), “the synthetic body is going to be dominant in terms of limbs” and will be completely normal to see artificial limbs fused with the human body.
“In the future will be something normal and not a matter of what you’re facts, but what we do and how we express ourselves,” he said. In fact, he imagines a future in which a person that when you wake up suffer from joint pain or stiffness in the legs can be replaced by artificial limbs without any problem.
“a Big part of my body is synthetic. Anything that scratches the surface of the soil is biological, and all the months and years the sophistication of my limbs improved, while my biological body is going down,” said Herr before show and removed to journalists one of the two prosthesis that will allow you to walk normally.
Under the pants, three computers, twelve sensors and the batteries that provide energy, move every one of the prosthetics he wears, it is easily removed with a simple movement of the hand.
Director of the group of biomecatrónica of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Herr noted that he is currently working on a device made of titanium that enters the bone and allows the control of neuronal a limb through sensors synthetic.
it Is a fusion of electrical and mechanical which will be marketed shortly and that, according to andrea Herr, himself used.
“next year I’m going to subject myself to a surgery where I will put implants in the body that are going to allow to communicate my nervous system and the prosthesis to be able to move, to feel the amazing bionic limb, such, the strength and touch,” he said.
According to Herr, bionics is advancing rapidly towards the actuators of the muscles that will allow in the future that the arms and legs bionic have capabilities far superior to the biological achievements that will allow that in a future not perceive the disability as something inherent to the human being.
“A disabled person should not accept his body as something broken and not to accept the disability,” he pointed out to this researcher, who prefers to speak of conditional, a term more neutral.
Herr will receive this Friday the Prize Princess of the Research in the ceremony that traditionally presides over the king Felipe VI at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo.
EFE
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