I’m of the opinion that regrowing lost limbs will be how the story of prosthetics eventually ends. Robotics just make too many compromises to come close to what evolution settled on. Even if you want to make crazy cyberpunk modifications, we can just alter or supplement our biology instead of replacing it.
Maybe? We are a bit far away from that atm, but you never know what’s around the corner with tech like crispr. I think the next step will probably be transplants. There’s a process called decellularization being developed where you wash away any genetic material from donor tissue. This does away with current issues surrounding organ rejection, but keeps the structural scaffolding of the tissue. We would still have to make advances in nerve integration for it to be feasible, but that’s advancing every year.
There have been limb transplants in the past, but they typically fail from rejection, or the patients elect to have them removed because they can’t get used to the new/diminished propeceptive capabilities of the limbs.
I’m of the opinion that regrowing lost limbs will be how the story of prosthetics eventually ends. Robotics just make too many compromises to come close to what evolution settled on. Even if you want to make crazy cyberpunk modifications, we can just alter or supplement our biology instead of replacing it.
Maybe? We are a bit far away from that atm, but you never know what’s around the corner with tech like crispr. I think the next step will probably be transplants. There’s a process called decellularization being developed where you wash away any genetic material from donor tissue. This does away with current issues surrounding organ rejection, but keeps the structural scaffolding of the tissue. We would still have to make advances in nerve integration for it to be feasible, but that’s advancing every year.
There have been limb transplants in the past, but they typically fail from rejection, or the patients elect to have them removed because they can’t get used to the new/diminished propeceptive capabilities of the limbs.