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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kosh on May 02, 2008, 12:19:07 pm
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Ok, ok, not exactly, but there is a cool exoskeletal suit (http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=real-life-iron-man-exoskeleton) coming out from a Japanese company with an awesome name:
Japan's CYBERDYNE, Inc. is hoping to change that with a sleek, white exoskeleton now in the works that it says can augment the body's own strength or do the work of ailing (or missing) limbs. The company is confident enough in its new technology to have started construction on a new lab expected to mass-produce up to 500 robotic power suits (think Star Wars storm trooper without the helmet) annually, beginning in October, according to Japan's Kyodo News Web site.
CYBERDYNE was launched in June 2004 to commercialize the cybernetic work of a group of researchers headed by Yoshiyuki Sankai a professor of system and information engineering at Japan's University of Tsukuba. Its newest product: the Robot Suit Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) exoskeleton, which the company created to help train doctors and physical therapists, assist disabled people, allow laborers to carry heavier loads, and aid in emergency rescues. A prototype of the exoskeleton suit is designed for the small in stature, standing five feet, three inches (1.6 meters) tall. The suit weighs 50.7 pounds (23 kilograms) and is powered by a 100-volt AC battery (that lasts up to five hours, depending upon how much energy the suit exerts). By way of comparison, a lower-body exoskeleton developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab's Biomechatronics Group is powered by a 48-volt battery pack and weighs about 26 pounds (11.8 kilograms).
It's great to see so many movie names and acronyms coming to reality. :lol:
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(http://www.swooh.com/lorenzo/hlphosted/koshftl.JPG)
god damn man...
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I've had more free time recently to post stuff I feel are of interest, combining that with sluggish board activity gets a result that looks something like that. :p
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Who cares, kosh usually posts interesting stuff
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You're the new jr2.
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Who cares, kosh usually posts interesting stuff
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Why is the name Cyberdyne so familar to me?
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I just read about this in PopSci. They had a thing on a bunch of different exoskeletal systems. Another cool one is XOS.
And Cyberdyne is the name of the corporation that built the Terminators...
...And the suit is called HAL...
Should I start building a bunker now?
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So Sartah Connor and Arnie blew up the WRONG Cyberdyne.......... :shaking:
God help us all......
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The Japanese rock with robotics and stuff. No wonder Gundam came from Japan.
.... Wait, almost all the giant robots of the world came from Japan.
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this looks pretty neat...if they can make it easy to manufacture, cheap enough... maybe i can get a massive loan and make a business muhahahahaha... world domination won't be too far away then!!
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What? Only three feet? What about your resident twelve year old 1.80 m tall guy? I'll have to wait then.
(note: this post is intended to bull**** my own tallness and rub it into somebody lower's face)
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What? Only three feet? What about your resident twelve year old 1.80 m tall guy? I'll have to wait then.
(note: this post is intended to bull**** my own tallness and rub it into somebody lower's face)
So thats...what? 6 feet?
I don't think you're taller then me :drevil:
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So... how old r u?
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a/s/l??
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14, male and i'm in Canada XD
I'm 6 foot one :P
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Hmm... almost 6 feet. My dashboard widget (NOT gadget) tells me 1.80m = 5.9055118 feet.
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a/s/l??
legal/yesplz/internets
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god damn man...
You only noticed that now? This section of the forum has looked like that for maybe the last two years. :p
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What was it like before those 2 years!? :wtf:
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Kazan
Before that, Liberator.
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and Aldo.
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aldo ;_;