World's first walking, talking bionic man on display at Smithsonian (Video)

Meet Frank, the world's first walking, talking bionic man that comes complete with 200 processors and a million sensors, and even a beating heart.

The Daily Mail reports that "Frank" was designed by Dr Bertolt Meyer from the University of Zurich, built by a team of engineers in London and is currently on display at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington as part of The Incredible Bionic Man exhibition.

'The goal is not to replace the human being,' Dr. Meyer told a press conference on Thursday.

'The ultimate goal is to provide technology to fix a broken person.'



Dr. Meyer is a social psychologist and was the model for Frank because he has a bionic hand himself.

A total of 200 processors fitted to Frank are powered through 70 circuit boards and 26 individual motors.

The skin of the robot features over one million sensors that can detect touch and changes in temperature.



The London engineers built Frank using 28 of 'the most advanced artificial body parts available today from laboratories and research centres around the world' as well as implantable synthetic organs.

Frank's face was then made of silicone and is a replica of Dr Meyer’s.

Dr Meyer is set to explain more about how Frank was built and what it is capable of during a one-hour documentary to be aired on the Smithsonian Channel on Sunday 20 October at 9pm PDT.

The documentary is only available to viewers here in the U.S.