Transhumanism is a social and philosophical movement that is devoted to the research and development of "robust" human enhancement technologies. These technologies consist of aspects of many different scientific disciplines, including biology, cybernetics, nanotechnology, genetics, and many, many more.

The term "transhumanism" was first used by Julian Huxley in 1957, in his paper of the same name, to describe what he considered to be the next step in human evolution. Since that time, the ideology behind the transhumanist movement has itself evolved from a philosophical idea into something more concrete, the merging of man with machine, the blending of the natural with the technological. This hybridization of the human form with advanced technologies is thought to be the catalyst of an evolutionary leap forward.