I hacked my body for a future that never came
&gt; Another panelist shut them down immediately: doctors and scientists aren’t even close to solving the phantom pain and limited mobility that most amputees face, let alone building something uniformly better than a human limb.<p>To repost a slightly tounge-incheek description of features your &quot;standard model&quot; has:<p>1. Supports a very large number of individual movements and articulations<p>2. Meets certain weight-restrictions (overall system must be near-buoyant in water)<p>3  Supports a wide variety of automatic self-repair techniques, many of which can occur without ceasing operation<p>4. Is entirely produced and usually maintained by unskilled (unconscious?) labor from common raw materials<p>5. Contains a comprehensive suite of sensors<p>6. Not too brittle, flexes to store and release mechanical energy from certain impacts<p>7. Selectively reinforces itself when strain is detected<p>8. Has areas for the storage of long-term energy reserves, which double as an impact cushion<p>9. Houses small fabricators to replenish some of its own operating fluids<p>10. Subsystems for thermal management (evaporative cooling, automatic micro-activation)