Cybernetics
Cybernetics was the study of hugely complex artificial intelligence systems, usually running on a positronic matrix and often housed inside robotic machine technology. A practical implementation of this was an android. The scientists who studied in this field were known as cyberneticists.

Mechanical replacements for body parts were called cybernetic implants. () The cybernetic implants used by the Borg to augment their bodies were often referred to as Borg implants. () Captain Jean-Luc Picard noted that like all cybernetic lifeforms, the Borg could not survive without their biological components. ()

The Bynars were also a partially cynernetic species, having their parietal lobe removed after birth and replaced with a synaptic processor. (; )

Romulans did not study cybernetics, which was part of a wider pattern of complete absence of any form of artificial life in Romulan culture. () This was because Romulan culture was influenced by the Zhat Vash, a quasi-cult within the Tal Shiar that believed that the existence of artificial life would inevitably lead to Ganmadan as a result of misinterpreting the Admonition. ()

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Related topics 
Bionics
Cybernetic organism
Daystrom Institute
Journal of Theoretical Cybernetics
Positronic brain
Robotics
Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
Starfleet Cybernetics Journal

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