10-04-2017, 08:11 PM
bionic technology seminar report
Bionics is the application of biological methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems and modern technology.The word bionic was coined by Jack E. Steele in 1958, possibly originating from the technical term bion (pronounced BEE-on; from Ancient Greek: ), meaning 'unit of life' and the suffix -ic, meaning 'like' or 'in the manner of', hence 'like life'. Some dictionaries, however, explain the word as being formed as a portmanteau from biology and electronics. It was popularized by the 1970s U.S. television series The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman, both based upon the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin, which was itself influenced by Steele's work. All feature humans given superhuman powers by electromechanical implants.Bionic technology or simply bionics is one of the newest branches of science and a wonderful amalgam of electronics, robotics and human psychology. It is so modern that even the recent editions of the leading dictionaries explain the meaning of the word bionic as a fictional character having artificial body parts and capable of doing things which no average human being can do! On the other side, the practical of putting on artificial limbs to make up for the missing original limbs is centuries old. But the erstwhile technology which provided such artificial limbs, and still provides in most of the cases, bears no relationship with the bionic technology which appears futuristic in comparison. As a matter of fact, both the technologies happen to be poles apart.