1. Are there any external resources used?
Answer: Yes
2. Is the intent to mimic the lost part directly?
Answer: No
3. Can the repurposed components be controlled?
Answer: Yes
4. Does this adaptation need any external energy resources for it to occur?
Answer: Yes
4) Robotics
There have been animals that get hurt and instead of putting them down the owner will find a creative way of helping the animal move around. One way is making a wheelchair for just the front or back legs. The design has two bars that go under the dogs/cats thighs or armpits and are strapped onto the animal over the top of the body. The two bars are also connected to a base that goes between the animals legs to give it stability and that base is connected to two wheels on the outside of the animals thighs or shoulders. This allows the animal to control the movement of the wheels with his body and other legs. Humans have also put lego pieces under a turtle that lost its leg. They attached one lego piece to the body with special surgical glue and superglue (Danger). Then they attached a lego wheel piece onto the piece attached to the turtle. This allowed the turtle to continue to move by using his other legs to give a push.
Danger, Tatiana. “Lego Wheel Turns Tortoise into a Bionic Turtle.” Lego Godt. KINJA, 7 Nov. 2013. Web. 15 Jan. 2015.
http://lego.gizmodo.com/lego-wheel-turns-tortoise-into-a-bionic-turtle-1460195208
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