The Cybathlon pushes the limits of bionic technology
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- čas přidán 21. 11. 2019
- Technology designed to help people with disabilities has come a long way in the last decade. Bionic arms and legs, powered wheelchairs and even exoskeletons give people who are paralyzed the ability to walk again. But we still have a long way to go-and that’s where the Cybathlon comes in.
In a global, olympic-style competition, people with physical disabilities compete against each other in day-to-day tasks like screwing in a lightbulb, making breakfast and doing laundry with prosthetic arms, legs and other aids.
This week, Quartz News travels to Karlsruhe, Germany to follow Claudia Breidbach from Iceland in the powered arm prosthetics race on the road to Cybathlon 2020.
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This is a perfect example of how positive attention, in the form of a race, can change the market for the better
Aquarium
@@rch6776 So true!
This is lit. The concept of using competition to enhance technology for the everyday person rather than for destructive reasons is a beautiful thing
One day, they will be faster than normal limbs.
Puddington I doubt it
@@viking3487 If everyone thought like that nothing would get done
kevin steel that must be why prosthetics are years behind what they should
Normal limbs don't evolve anymore, prosthetic arms do. They will be faster eventually
@@viking3487 When it comes to some tasks prosthetics are already better.
The paralympics show some of those examples.
But the human hand is obviously hard mode for any prosthetics engineer.
This will at least take another few decades.
Can imagine this cybathalon being the shit in the the future like an enhanced Olympics or something
Wish them all the best. One day the technology will be so good that people with "normal" arms and legs would willingly change them out for prosthetic limbs, torso, eyes or even internal organs. I don't expect to see it in this life time but it's gonna happen.
Lol I was not expecting Bonnelly comments here
Yep, the future is gonna be like Deus-Ex or CyberPunk 2077... but in real life.
@FuranDuron it's gonna be violent
This is great, not only do these events create a sense of community between the participants; but it also inspires the engineers to create faster and more efficient prosthetics.
God bless you for helping thesepeople
The Cybathalon in 2100 will have events like who can smash through a brick wall
Its good to see these developments in Europe, especially competition based on technological improvement.
This is amazing. I love it!
Yay go Claudia I'm proud of you
I thought for the unknown reason modern high-end prosthetics are a bit better than that. Well, there is some space to grow.
AWESOME
The next Cybathlon is supposed to be later this week!
The race to get back what was lost.
Tight. I want cyber legs, arms, skull, and ribcage. The rest natural.
Once they are as good as the real thing, there is no reason not too. It can only extend your life.
@@minhngoctran2930 You're thinking of it like it's never gonna evolve and change to adapt and become part of your body, my father had half his face's bone structure replaced by a titanium plate and yes indeed there are issues but it's not as bad as you make it sound and that is with old techniques and materials, nothing is gonna stay the way we see it today and that includes logistics, lifestyles, aesthetics and technologies. For reference look back on the 80's and tell me how much the mindset we had and the tech has changed.
@@minhngoctran2930 You're simply talking as if one would've talked about cellphones back in the 80s---cumbersome, limited applications & shit expensive. fast forward to year 2020, try to even find a city dweller with average income who DOESN'T own a cellphone. technology, so long as there's a need for it, will ALWAYS evolve. significant improvements may come in one year or 100 years, but technology WON'T stop evolving. hell, in cases like yours, who knows if the whole procedure would be as simple as people going for the likes of lasik with their eyes these days by year 2050.
We suffer from constant fatigue and fatigue in cooking vegetables in oil
So we need an electronic device
Electronic device that turns the face of chopped foods up and down
So as not to burn fried foods
Please do in the invention of the fryer device industry
To cook chopped vegetables such as eggplant, potatoes and broccoli
Please send these proposals to the owners of technological factories and companies producing electronic devices
Have any studies been done to see if cannabis and the hallucinogenics can benefit the learning process of adapting to a new prosthetic device?
I think the added temporary interneuronal synapse connections thanks to marijuana and especially the psychedelics are literal wiring upgrades to our brains that can be made permanent through normal neuroplasticity learning. These new connections give parts of our brains new access to both our current sensory perceptions, heightening them and making us more appreciative of everything we experience, while also giving parts of our brains new access to memories making even our memories heightened with literally new mental perspectives on them. It’s like a physical empathy, giving our brains the ability to have new and more diverse perspectives on everything, past and present.
These substances widely have the reputation as creativity-enhancers but I think actually they’re empathy-enhancers creating new perspectives, giving artists greater ability to imagine how a wider audience will perceive their work while it’s in progress, making it more creative as a result.
Legalize, release, expunge and give industry advantages to the minorities most harmed.
I think the hardware of the hand itself is the biggest limiting factor as of now
this is pretty cool incase i lose an arm
Challenge: Shake “hand” without any tools
I'm Crackhead Jaaaaaaames!!!!!
A.mendoza-1 yr.ago
I need artificial hand.i hope you make it.
Plz indian cost
Where's Dean Kamen
COOL
one guy comes in pretending to have a robot hand, while his hand is a normal biological one
Part of race? No pls. We have enough race wars.
Oy vey