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Meet ‘Rex’: The World’s First Bionic Man With Artificial Organs That Only Costs $1M

Feb. 6, 2013 5:07pm Liz Klimas

What is being called the the “world’s first complete Bionic Man” has been unveiled ahead of its display at London’s Science Museum on Feb. 7.

Rex, short for “Robotic Exoskeleton” according to Device Magazine, stands at 6.5 feet tall and has technology that allows him to hear, speak and move. He even has artificial organs and synthetic blood. To make at least his face look more realistic, he has glass eyes and is covered in artificial skin.

NBC News has more on how and why Rex came to be:

Rex’s head is modeled after Swiss psychologist Bertolt Meyer who uses a bionic hand. Meyer presents a documentary, “How to Build a Bionic Man,” scheduled to air Thursday on the United Kingdom’s Channel 4.

“I’ve looked around for new bionic technologies, out of personal interest, for a very long time and … until five to six years ago nothing much was happening. Then suddenly we get this explosion of innovation,” he told reporters at a news briefing today at London’s Science Museum.

Watch Meyer talk about the bionic man in this footage:

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Comments (25)

Dunedainn
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 12:44am
Uncanny Valley…

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sizzlinsexybeckster
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 6:54pm
Obama shall live and reign forever! Wow! Such lovely technology!

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TotallyNotATroll
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:23pm
Lee Majors is upset by this, and it’s a robot, so Lee still holds the title.

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- jmcenanly
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:42pm
  It’s Commander Data’s distant ancestor. Many of the systems used in this would be used as both an interface with a human being ( a cyborg, which is what Lee Majors played in that 70′s T.V. show) and in human-like robots ( an android, which is what Brent Spiner played on Star Trek)
  
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:59pm
Now encicommie and the 3rd acorn can have their very own friend to sit with them in mommies basement!

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biohazard23
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:12am
Paging Sheldon Cooper.

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- DarthMims
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:22pm
  That’s Dr. Sheldon Cooper.
  
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mewnani
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:08am
And just like that we’re that much closer to Blade Runner…

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grimjack3791
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 8:47am
This is not a bionic man. This is a robot.

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Jarhead 88
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 5:46am
Rex must be a liberal, all it does is sit there and not do Jack s#it.

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- Paulhgreenbay
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 8:31am
  OMG! It’s only 7:30 am and that is clearly my lol of the day! Maybe the Dems will roll these out and give them voting rights
  
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 9:07pm
I thought a Bionic man was flesh and blood with robotic parts. This thing is all robot.

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- jblaze
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 9:22pm
  That guy has Hitler ****! Creepy!
  
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- MrInventor
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:41pm
  And why didn’t they plug it in for us?
  
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- raydg
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:43pm
  You are right. Unless Rex has organic material he is an android. Bionic is a contraction of biological and robotic.
  
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- raydg
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:14am
  My apologies, I should have not called Rex he, but it.
  
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- DIR
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:17am
  If anything, it should be taught to spot libs so it can stick it’s bionic foot up their a$$es!
  
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Tom21773
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 8:24pm
$1M? Typical; the U.S. government paid $6M decades ago.

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- ECtech
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 8:32pm
  Yeah and that was in 1970′s dollars.
  
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woodyee
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 7:50pm
Must be a Republican – they only need balls big enough to agree with the bad guys, which takes almost no balls at all…

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- Paulhgreenbay
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 8:33am
  Booooo! Want funny, see Jarhead 88.
  
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firman
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 7:28pm
What, no balls? must be a politician.

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- Bodacious_Boedi
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 7:35pm
  Naww, just British.
  
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- firman
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 8:03pm
  I stand corrected,LOL.
  
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- Kalidor835
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 8:35am
  Actually it’s Swiss. You know the people that issue adults fully automatic weapons? I dare you to say they have no balls. ;)
  
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