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Toward Plant Cyborgs: Hydrogels Incorporated onto Plant Tissues Enable Programmable Shape Control

ACS Macro Letters, 2022
Engineered living materials (ELMs) that incorporate living organisms and synthetic materials enable advanced functional properties. Here, we seek to create plant cyborgs by combining plants or plant tissues with stimuli-responsive polymeric materials ...
Nicole F Steinmetz, Jinhye Bae
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Frontline Cyborgs at Your Service: How Human Enhancement Technologies Affect Customer Experiences in Retail, Sales, and Service Settings

Journal of Interactive Marketing, 2020
Dhruv Grewal, Martin Mende
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Everyday Cyborgs: On Integrated Persons and Integrated Goods

Medical Law Review, 2018
Using the metaphor and actuality of the ‘everyday cyborg’, this article makes the case that the law is ill-equipped to deal with challenges raised by the linking of the organic, biological person with synthetic, inorganic parts and devices. For instance,
Muireann Quigley
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Creators Matter. Perception and Pricing of Art Made by Human, Cyborgs and Humanoid Robots

Empirical Studies of the Arts, 2022
Not only does the art market include human and nonhuman creators, it also incorporates technologically augmented artists, called cyborgs. They use wearables, sensors, chips, and even new organs to process various stimuli, such as electromagnetic ...
Paweł Fortuna, Artur Modliński, Monika McNeill   +2 more
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Automatic Training of Rat Cyborgs for Navigation

Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2016
A rat cyborg system refers to a biological rat implanted with microelectrodes in its brain, via which the outer electrical stimuli can be delivered into the brain in vivo to control its behaviors.
Gang Pan
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Cyborgs, Robots and Society: Implications for the Future of Society from Human Enhancement with In-The-Body Technologies

Technologies, 2018
Some well-known scientists and technologists have expressed concern that robots may take over the world. More generally, there is concern that robots will take over human jobs and leave billions of people suffering long-term unemployment.
S. Fox
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Cyborg morals, cyborg values, cyborg ethics

Ethics and Information Technology, 2003
The era of the Cyborg is now upon us. This has enormous implications on ethical values for both humans and cyborgs. In this paper the state of play is discussed. Routes to cyborgisation are introduced and different types of Cyborg are considered. The author's own self-experimentation projects are described as central to the theme taken.
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Cyborg

A concise introduction to cyborg theory that examines the way in which technology is situated, political, and embodied. This introduction to cyborg theory provides a critical vantage point for analyzing the claims around emerging technologies like automation, robots, and AI.
Laura Forlano, Danya Glabau
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Heavenly Bodies: Why It Matters That Cyborgs Have Always Been About Disability, Mental Health, and Marginalization

Social Science Research Network, 2019
This paper explores some history and theories about cyborgs — humans with biotechnological interventions which allow them to regulate their own internal bodily process — and how those compare to the realities of how we treat and consider currently-living
D. Williams
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The Cyborg and Cyborgization

2012
In the early 1960s, Manfred E. Clynes and Nathan S. Kline, two NASA researchers, coined the term cyborg from the combination of the words cybernetic and organism (Gray, Figueroa-Sarriera, and Mentor 1995). Clynes and Kline wrote, “for the exogenously extended organizational complex functioning as an integrated homeostatic system unconsciously, we ...
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