Make me a CYBORG!

Peter Scott-Morgan’s high-tech plan for living with motor neurone disease

- RICHARD MCCLURE, IAN MACEWAN

When pioneering scientist Peter Scott-Morgan was diagnosed with motor neuron disease (MND) in 2017, he was aware that, while his brain would remain fully alert, the condition, which attacks the nerve cells, would first rob him of the use of his limbs, and then the ability to eat, speak and breathe.

Determined to extend his life, he decided to put his experience as a robotics expert to good use and find a way to deal with the degenerative effects of the incurable disease by turning himself into the world’s first cyborg – part man, part machine.