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Friday, September 11, 2009
Robot exoskeletons
Sep 11 2009 3:35PM | Permalink |Comments (1) |
Fellow Croatian Andy Turudic sent me an interesting link about exoskeletons being developed to help soldiers carry heavy packs and other loads. I was a little put off by the company name of Cyberdyne. Is not that from some science fiction moves where robots take over the world? Anyway, military applications notwithstanding, the real benefit to these exoskeletons may be in helping handicapped people achieve independence and mobility. And the name of the robot, HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb), well that is right out of 2001 Space Odyssey, even I can remember that.
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at 9/11/2009 4:10:38 PM, Andy T said:
What I think is most awesome about this product is that these are FOR RENT, for a month for what you'd pay Hertz for a week for one of their yellow Corvettes. Could you imagine being a Yank over in Japan on a biz trip, renting one of these babies, and walking into a customer meeting at NEC with one of these on? Better and lots more geek-appeal than a Godzilla suit, I'd say :-)
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