This is a set of videos I collected recently to be applied in the development of robotics not commonly shown and tend instead to be overloaded with content shown elsewhere over and over claiming to be new information but in reality is decades behind current developments.
I find a lot of this awesome and can see how these developments can also apply to cybernetic adaptations for human beings when their organic body parts start failing. While others consider such things abominations, I am one of the few that without falling into the usual trans-humanist jargon see it instead as a potential gift for those with physical disabilities that current options are inadequate to restore a better and fuller quality of life and who are as such generally speaking, disadvantaged individuals. You can check out their channel at https://www.youtube.com/@CloneRobotics.
The following are other commentary videos from other sources in regards to this particular historical development.
Now consider that the concept of artificial muscles were created over 5 years ago, its odd we dont see that also incorporated into such innovations as these. The following is an example of such creations that should have been implemented long before now more openly.
Now consider some of these more recent applications of synthetics.
Synthetic eyes that can aid in people being able to actually see goes back a decade from the time of this post.
This was posted some 3 years ago.
More recently...
Of course there are many more organs we need to preserve and at times replace for many diverse reasons, however, despite all the innovations and abilities, isn't it odd and even insulting these are not more commonly applied and even rejected by various public and private health insurance companies? That's far more insane. Some of the following are examples of such innovations.
This is where things get to go from cool and awesome to not so cool.
We do need to, at this point, clear out a lot of misinformation such as the specific distinctions of robot, android and cyborg. It is important because many sites and sources have intentionally confused such distinctions on purpose or simply have no idea what it is they are talking about. Fortunately some of us, like myself, are still around at the time of this posted article that grew up during the development of these concepts so can still present it with factual clarity. (Yeah, it's a Gen X thing).
The original source of the word Robot is Slavic from "robotika" ="hard worker/manual labor," but through later Czechoslovakian came to have the sense of "forced labor and drudgery (I.E. slave and slavery)." It was later adopted and applied to any machine designed to take over specific types of work and functions. In technicality even a motor vehicle is a robot because it replaces such as horses and other livestock. Robots with roughly humanoid shapes are not true Androids.
Android comes from Greek "Andro" = man and Latin derived 'Id" = Likeness and therefore simply means man-like or human like. Even a "statue that looks identical to a human" falls in this context but the true sense of Android is a machine created to look, think and act "like" a human. The word "Droid" dropping the first "An" part is Made-up by George Lucas for Star Wars.
A Cyborg is simply any biological life form that has integration of synthetic parts be they limbs or organs or tissue. A Machine to which biological parts are added is also a Cyborg only to a point. However, if you introduce a fully living brain like that of an animal or human to said machine as a vehicle for its survival then it becomes a true cyborg even if over time various neurons are replaced with such as silicone based ones for storing and preserving accessible memory and consciousness.
Later Sci-fi more or less invented another term with the concept of creation of synthetic life more or less where the natural and technological are completely indistinct in the creation of the entity. Such a entity being more or less its own embodiment of surrealism and a very literal sense was called a Replicant or alternatively a Synthoid for Synthetic Humanoid. The concept of such grown in a lab calls back to the concepts of the so called Homunculus which literally means "little human" and has some of the precursor rudimentary concepts of what later came to be part of the whole Stem Cell research bit. Some of this is reflected even earlier in the ideas of such as the Visions of Zosimos, written in the third century CE. In any case we can also consider such views as the following presents as somewhat reasonable.
For the more wealthy eccentric types which are somewhat "out there" we have this as well to consider.