I hacked my body for a future that never came
> 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.To repost a slightly tounge-incheek description of features your "standard model" has:1. Supports a very large number of individual movements and articulations2. Meets certain weight-restrictions (overall system must be near-buoyant in water)3  Supports a wide variety of automatic self-repair techniques, many of which can occur without ceasing operation4. Is entirely produced and usually maintained by unskilled (unconscious?) labor from common raw materials5. Contains a comprehensive suite of sensors6. Not too brittle, flexes to store and release mechanical energy from certain impacts7. Selectively reinforces itself when strain is detected8. Has areas for the storage of long-term energy reserves, which double as an impact cushion9. Houses small fabricators to replenish some of its own operating fluids10. Subsystems for thermal management (evaporative cooling, automatic micro-activation)