He is 183cm tall, can sing and chat, and appears to be a young man, according to Voice of China’s Newsline. Now in the UK, his English name is “REX”. Now the world is watching him and wants to learn more about him.

His presence has not only been an eye-opener, it has sparked an ethical debate, with some excited and others fearful of being bitten back.

In fact, this REX is the world’s first complete “bionic man”, which is to say, a human-like “artificial man”. REX, the bionic man developed by some of the world’s top scientists, has just been unveiled at the UK’s Science Museum. What exactly is a bionic man good for? Why is the scientific community so concerned about it?

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“I’ll be back” brings us back to the terminator era. In the movie, The T-800, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, is a mechanical warrior. He has muscles, blood, and many human characteristics, but he has a frightening name, the Terminator. Back from the movies, a “bionic” man with blood and artificial organs named “Rex” was recently put on display in the UK. The designers claim it is the world’s first complete bionic robot. The bionic robot aroused intense curiosity once it was exhibited.

David MAYER, British social psychologist: My personal favorite is the artificial blood that runs in these tubes because it’s nanoparticles that bind to oxygen and deliver oxygen. It’s like real blood, but it’s not real blood, it’s nanoparticles, and I think it’s very science fiction, and I’m very impressed.

In addition to an artificial blood circulation system, the $1 million bionic robot has an artificial heart, kidneys, limbs and even skin on its head. The bionic robot also reportedly has artificial intelligence and speech synthesis systems that can understand simple sentences and answer questions. Such a bionic robot, exciting, but also frightening. Bionic technology could create a new species that is neither human nor robot, creating a new species that will eventually come back to bite us, warns Us bioethics and human rights professor Annas. Is the movie realistic? Zhang Hao, a robotics engineer, disagrees:

Zhang Hao: Totally two different directions. Because the direction is not to replace a human organ, but to replace a human to do some work, so he may not look like a human, he doesn’t need a silicone body, and that doesn’t matter. So going in the terminator direction and seeing this $1 million bionic man are two very different directions. This bionic man is just an accumulation.

In Zhang Hao’s view, the bionic robot in front of him is of greater medical significance than engineering significance.

Zhang Hao: It seems that it is impossible for a disabled person to run faster than a normal person, but this may be broken in a few years. The legs of this REX bionic man, a very famous professor at MIT named Huchel, both of his own legs were severed below the knee, and he now uses a bionic leg that he developed every day. His goal was to make the best bionic legs in the world. With these things, he looks like he’s on par with the rest of the average person right now, but it’s possible that in three years, five years, 10 years, he’ll run a lot faster than the average person. It’s totally possible.

Giiso information, founded in 2013, is the first domestic high-tech enterprise focusing on the research and development of intelligent information processing technology and the development and operation of core software for writing robots. At the beginning of its establishment, the company received angel round investment, and in August 2015, GSR Venture Capital received $5 million pre-A round of investment.

However, Zhang admitted that the current technology has reached a level that gives the bionic man the ability to operate fully autonomously.

Zhang hao: May speak the terminator might be A little alarmist, or A little scary, should be another way, you can imagine is doraemon, is also A meaning, is A completely autonomous robots, that is to say it, do not have independent consciousness, but he can independently accomplish something, want to let the bionic man moving ability, operation ability, thinking ability. The current technology is already there. The real world is not science fiction, not to say that we now have this ability, this ability must be developed, not like that, but don’t rule out in a certain enterprise internal, or within a certain school, said there was a scientist, or rich man all of a sudden whim, now all these things are satisfied, It’s possible to make a Terminator right now.