HALF MAN, HALF MACHINE: Joel Kinnaman stars as the titular character in the 2014 remake of the seminal cyborg classic, Robocop.

The dream of the cyborg is coming true at an exhilarating rate.

As humans gets better and better at making machines, we keep attaching those machines to our bodies to make ourselves better humans.

It seems at times that the only question left is if we can put a human brain in a robotic frame. Actually, it's not a matter of if. It's a matter of when.

This week, social psychologist Bertold Meyer's been travelling around the country with a contraption that looks like a cross between a Halloween mask and Johnny Number Five.

It's the subject of a new documentary by the Smithsonian Channel called The Incredible Bionic Man.

Meyer makes for a great spokesman, since he was born without the lower part of his left arm and now wears a bionic prosthesis. He is, by definition, a cyborg - but only partially.

So just how close are we to a fully formed cyborg? And even more curiously, what will it look like?

WHAT IS A CYBORG?

Let's take a second to agree on what exactly it means to be bionic and what it means to be a cyborg.

The rest is here:

How close are we to full-fledged cyborgs?