Kevin Warwick is the first cyborg to walk the earth. Are cybernetics coming to a body near you?

Inspector Gadget was just a movie. But could it come true? Scientist Kevin Warwick thinks so. He's gone so far as to make himself part robot.

Warwick is a professor of cybernetics at Reading University. Apparently Warwick said "I want to do something with my life; I want to be a cyborg." At first this might not make sense.

In 1986, he had a silicon chip transponder inserted into his arm that enabled him to operate doors and lights. He planned to have another chip inserted. His goal was noble—to save humankind through technology.

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