[Marf]

Have any of you worked with any form of machinery, or even programed?
I'm wondering how long it would be until we had prosthetics with more capability than our own limbs.
Would you trade in your limbs for robotic ones?

[Satan]

No. General rule with electronics is there will always be bugs no matter how long they sit and try to work all of them out.

[phyrrus9]

Have any of you worked with any form of machinery, or even programed?
I'm wondering how long it would be until we had prosthetics with more capability than our own limbs.
Would you trade in your limbs for robotic ones?

I have done robot programming for about four years. What do you need to know?

[3SidedSquare]

Stuff about prosthetic:
-Mechanized prosthesis are slow moving, they don't have to be, but there's no reason to make them fast yet.
-Sensory technology is in it's very early stages. You can't just hook a sensor up to some nerves and expect it to work
-No one has a reason to build a "Swiss army knife prosthetic" because there's no market for it.
Source: I'm in school for this shit.

TL;DR: Give science men more money

Anything in particular you wanted to know?

[Oni]

I've done programming. Haven't done robot programming. I wouldn't trade my limbs for robotic ones, although I might if they got worn down or something like that.

[MiS]

Stuff about prosthetic:
-Mechanized prosthesis are slow moving, they don't have to be, but there's no reason to make them fast yet.
-Sensory technology is in it's very early stages. You can't just hook a sensor up to some nerves and expect it to work
-No one has a reason to build a "Swiss army knife prosthetic" because there's no market for it.
Source: I'm in school for this shit.

TL;DR: Give science men more money

Anything in particular you wanted to know?

In the most serious manner possible, how far away are we from full on mechanical body replacements for terminally-ill people? It's a dumb question, but I'm legitimately asking.

[Losi]

In the most serious manner possible, how far away are we from full on mechanical body replacements for terminally-ill people? It's a dumb question, but I'm legitimately asking.

Im thinking about 30 to 40 years. Companies have made fully operational robotic limbs. Now the real problem is the power supply and how to connect the endoskeletal limb to the brain.

[cr33pyguy]

Im thinking about 30 to 40 years. Companies have made fully operational robotic limbs. Now the real problem is the power supply and how to connect the endoskeletal limb to the brain.

Why not just transfer your consciousness to a computer while at it?

Would I trade my limbs for robotic ones? No. Unless they had significant advantages over normal limbs.

[MiS]

Why not just transfer your consciousness to a computer while at it?

Would I trade my limbs for robotic ones? No. Unless they had significant advantages over normal limbs.

People whose bodies are ravaged by terminal illness, maybe?

[cr33pyguy]

People whose bodies are ravaged by terminal illness, maybe?

Are you saying they would use these, because they surely would, or that they would upload their consciousness onto a computer, to exist in a robotic form?