Engineering Adaptive/Assistive

Technology Technology refers to the products and processes that are designed to meet our needs.

Engineering Design Process Identify and Research a need. Develop possible solutions Make a prototype (a test model) Test and evaluate the prototype (Cost-Benefit analysis) Modify and retest.

Sometimes Technology has unintended Consequences Medication Cars Internet List some unintended consequences from these technologies.

Applying the engineering design process to living things. Bioengineering Applying the engineering design process to living things. Can you think of a problem a living thing might have that needs to be solved. Remember people, plants and animals are all living things. Write down 3 problems

Adaptive and Assistive Bioengineering Assistive Bioengineering: technology that helps organisms without changing them. Adaptive and Assistive Bioengineering

Adaptive and Assistive Bioengineering Adaptive Bioengineering: technology that helps organisms by changing them. Adaptive and Assistive Bioengineering BRACES

Which is Adaptive, which is Assistive Technology? ARTIFICIAL HEART Heart Pump (HELPER PUMP) Artificial Heart ASSISTIVE ADAPTIVE

Adaptive Technology: technology that helps organisms by changing them. Bioengineered Corn Adaptive Technology: technology that helps organisms by changing them. Scientists have inserted into corn a gene from the bacterium Bacillus thurigiensis, usually referred to as BT. The gene makes a protein lethal to certain caterpillars that destroy corn plants. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/harvest/

Bioengineered Corn ADAPTIVE Technology This form of insect control has two advantages: It reduces the need for chemical pesticides, and the BT protein, which is present in the plant in very low concentrations, has no effect on humans. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/harvest/

Adaptive Technology: technology that helps organisms by changing them. Unintended Consequences?

ADAPTIVE Technology: technology that helps organisms by changing them. ARTIFICIAL HEART Artificial Heart

Implantable Ventricular Assist Device (IVAD) Assistive technology: technology that helps organisms assisting, or helping their own, natural systems Heart Pump Implantable Ventricular Assist Device (IVAD) ASSISTIVE

Honda Walking Assist Device

Honda Walking Assist Device

Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton ADAPTIVE TECHNOLOGY ADAPTIVE TECHNOLOGY

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY SARCOS exoskeleton

SARCOS exoskeleton

Military Exoskeleton

Military Exoskeleton

Cochlear implants take the place of the inner ear. ADAPTIVE TECHNOLOGY

ADAPTIVE or ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY? Insulin Pump ADAPTIVE or ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY? ASSISTIVE

The cornea of the eye is “cut” to allow the lens to work properly Radial Keratotomy The cornea of the eye is “cut” to allow the lens to work properly ADAPTIVE TECHNOLOGY

Which way are these images rotating?. Clockwise? Counter-clockwise?

Counter-clockwise? Clockwise?

Counter-clockwise? Clockwise?

Random Sampling from Population INFERENCE POPULATION SAMPLE