Review: 'Peter: The Human Cyborg'

I rarely come away from a film or TV show without a single complaint, but that's exactly what happened after watching Peter: The Human Cyborg this weekend. If I had to name two minor quibbles about this new Channel 4 documentary, they'd be: Then again, neither was the short few years Dr. Peter Scott-Morgan had to prepare for rapidly advancing Motor Neurone Disease (MND) to lock his sharp mind into a dysfunctional body. But against all odds, the roboticist pulled it off at the eleventh hour, adapting himself and merging with cutting-edge technology, including Artificial Intelligence, before losing the power to breathe, eat, speak and express himself. "I will continue to evolve," he says with enthusiasm," dying as a human, living as a cyborg." MND, known less commonly as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), is the progressive killer that eventually took Stephen Hawking in 2018, but an undaunted Peter was determined to take on his disease in a different way to the renowned physicist.