Bionics involves the application of biological knowledge to electronic and mechanical systems.
Bionics is a term that comes from the English word bionic , composed of the words bio and electronic . The concept may refer to the production of artificial organs that, through electromechanical mechanisms, imitate the functioning of natural ones. Bionics also refers to the action of applying knowledge of biological phenomena to mechanical and electronic systems .
Engineering, design and architecture are some of the sciences and disciplines that draw on the solutions and knowledge of bionics. Its resources make it possible to simulate the behavior of living organisms.
Features of bionics
It can be said that bionics is based on the principle that living beings are comparable to highly complex machines . They have numerous instruments of different types that allow them to react to stimuli.
That is why it is possible to aspire to the creation of machines that function in a way similar to that of living organisms, and even have the ability to "learn" new behaviors.
Its origin
Leonardo da Vinci is often named as a precursor of bionics, since he applied his knowledge of living beings in the design of different types of devices and machines.
Over the years, the development of prostheses and artificial organs became common, while progress was also made in the field of artificial intelligence (which pursues the creation of systems that can resolve different situations on their own, autonomously).
Artificial intelligence can be framed in bionics.
Bionic engineering
Bionic engineering is known as the engineering specialization focused on the production of technological tools that simulate the functioning or shape of living beings.
The mission of this discipline is that electronic systems and biological systems can work together.
A TV series
This term is part of the title of one of the most successful television series of the 70s: "The Bionic Woman" . It emerged as a proposal derived from "The Six Million Dollar Man" (the name given in Spain to "The Six Million Dollar Man" , which in the rest of the Spanish-speaking countries was called "The Nuclear Man" ).
The series tells the story of a professional tennis player in the prime of her career named Jaimie Sommers (played by actress Linday Wagner) who suffers a terrible parachute accident with serious consequences, such as the loss of her legs and an arm. An American government official and a doctor, Oscar Goldman and Rudy Wells , respectively, carry out an experiment through which they implant two prosthetic legs, an arm and an ear that turn her into a being with superhuman abilities.
This "bionic woman" was capable of running at speeds much faster than a normal human being, had enormous strength in her prosthetic arm, and could hear conversations at great distances with her new hearing. The series was developed by Kenneth Johnson , a screenwriter who created the character in 1975 . Broadcasting began the following year and ran for three seasons (the first two on ABC and the last on NBC , two well-known television networks).
Despite the short duration of the series and belonging to a very remote era, there are many fans who still remember it and pay tribute to it. For example, in 2000 , an episode of the second season of "Futurama" , an animated television series by Matt Groening (creator of "The Simpsons" ), was called "The Cryonic Woman" in which the life of a young pizza delivery man who gets trapped in a cryogenic capsule by mistake and wakes up a millennium later.