Bionic man on display at London's Science Museum
07 Feb 2013
The Science Museum in London is displaying a 6 ft tall bionic man, complete with working artificial organs.
The human-like machine, called Rex, was built to showcase the extent to which human parts could be reproduced by technology.
The Million Dollar Man, who takes his name from what it cost to make him, incorporates a host of latest advances in bionic limbs, as well as artificial pancreas, kidney, spleen and trachea.
Artificial arteries carry man-made blood while a rudimentary eye powered by a microchip interprets images.
According to Rich Walker, managing director of Shadow Robot, which built Rex, they were surprised how many of the parts of the body could be replaced.
He said there were some vital organs missing, like the stomach, but 60 to 70 per cent of a human had effectively been rebuilt.
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