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Biorobotics is a term that loosely covers the fields of cybernetics, bionics and even genetic engineering as a collective study. Cybernetics is a theory of the communication and control of regulatory feedback. ...
Bionics (also known as Biomimetics, Biognosis or Biomimicry, a short form of Biomechanics - from the Greek word bios - pronounced vios - which means life, and the word mechanics) is the application of methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems and modern technology. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Genetically modified organism. ...
Biorobotics is often used to refer to the study of making robots that emulate or simulate living biological organisms mechanically and even chemically, it is also used in the reverse: making biological organisms as manipulatable and functional as robots.
In the later sense biorobotics is referred to as a theoretical discipline of comprehensive genetic engineering in which organisms are created and designed by artificial means. The creation of life from non-living matter for example, is biorobotics. Because of its mostly theoretical status it is presently limited to science fiction, the actually field is in its infancy as synthetic biology. Synthetic biology is a new area of research that combines science and engineering in order to design and build novel biological functions and systems. ...
The Replicants in the movie Blade Runner would be considered biorobotic in nature: (synthetic) organisms of living tissue and cells yet created artificially. Instead of microchips, their brain would be based on ganglions/artificial neurons. Blade Runner is a science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and released in 1982; it depicts a dark, dystopic vision of Los Angeles in November 2019. ...
In the 1988 adventure_game Snatcher the term Bioroid was coined to represent a synthetic human like the replicates in blade runner. A small group cyberpunk and mecha anime, manga and Role-playing_game have also used the term, sometimes more generally for a partially or fully biological robot or for a breed of genetically engineered human slaves. Adventure is a genre of video game typified by exploration, puzzle-solving, interaction with game characters, and a focus on narrative rather than reflex-based challenges. ...
Sega CD Snatcher, the first and only English version made. ...
Cyberpunk (a portmanteau of cybernetics and punk) is a genre of science fiction which focuses on computers or information technology, usually coupled with some degree of breakdown in social order. ...
The title mecha RX-78-2 Gundam from the popular anime Mobile Suit Gundam In some works of science fiction, mecha (singular or plural) or mechs (singular: mech) (sometimes referred to as giant robots) are piloted or remote-controlled limbed vehicles. ...
A scene from Cowboy Bebop (1998) Anime (アニメ) is Japanese animation, sometimes referred to in the Western world by the portmanteau Japanimation. ...
Rurouni Kenshin manga, volume 1 (English version) Manga (漫画) is the Japanese word for cartoons (not necessarily animated, this includes print cartoons); outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. ...
A role-playing game (RPG) is a type of game in which players assume the roles of fictional characters via role-playing. ...
The word slaves has several meanings and usages: People who are owned by others, and live to serve them without pay. ...
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| General subfields and scientists in Cybernetics | | K1 | Ergodic theory, Polycontexturality, Second order cybernetics | | K2 | Catastrophe theory, Connectionism, Control theory, Decision theory, Information theory, Semiotics, Synergetics, Systems theory | | K3 | Biological cybernetics, Biomedical cybernetics, Biorobotics, Computational neuroscience, Homeostasis, Medical cybernetics, Neuro cybernetics, Sociocybernetics | | Cyberneticians | William Ross Ashby, Claude Bernard, Valentin Braitenberg, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, George S. Chandy, Joseph J. DiStefano III, Heinz von Foerster, Jay Forrester, Ernst von Glasersfeld, Francis Heylighen, Erich von Holst, Stuart Kauffman, Niklas Luhmann, Warren McCulloch, Humberto Maturana, Horst Mittelstaedt, Talcott Parsons, Walter Pitts, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Robert Trappl, Valentin Turchin, Francisco Varela, Frederic Vester, John N. Warfield, Kevin Warwick, Norbert Wiener | |
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