Sports limbs

The Small Price To Pay For A Bionic Limb?

Bionic limbs have become a popular occurrence this day in current society. In 2010, the hype started from an Australian man Patrick* opted to amputate his arm to be replaced by a bionic hand.

This was the first proven result of success for a greater range of movement. The limb turned on a 360 degree axis and moved forwards and back as well as each individual fingers having movement.

This movement was allowed through tapping into the nervous system of the user. The brain controls the thoughts and the robot limb responds as if a human hand was there. Quite a smart idea but the robot was still to become more fluid in its movement patterns.

Currently, 30 years later the bionic limb movement has flourished. Athlete’s and hospital amputees were the first to cotton on to this advancement. The development of the bionic limbs has become so fluid with the human body that one could almost mistake it for being human.

The bionic limb has become extremely controversial in sports however as the world knows, the Japanese lead the technology exponential curve. Rightly so their sports players lack physical advances to the rest of the world such as height, muscle built and strength. Japan in 2010 were not so good against teams such as New Zealand in rugby. The NZ team are almost double their size due to the genetic difference.

The first Japanese rugby player received a bionic leg in 2011 in time for the rugby world cup. This was an extreme uproar as it was kept a secret till 10years after the world cup and the Japanese team rose from coming last in the test to 2^nd against NZ!

From then on then on the fight between NZ and Japan was traded for NZ against robots. The Japanese team traded almost all their knees and shoulders with bionic limbs making them superior in the sport. The fight still continues to exist between the united sports nation to whether it is illegitimate to own a bionic limb due to the vast number of people who have a robot limb now.

The argument continues!

*http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13378036 video link 2010. The Bionic limb, start of a new future body.