Cyberdyne mass produces HAL the Robot!
Okay so the names are a bit funny in an eerie prophetic way :P BUT
YAY!!!! I can go rock hunting again!!! Well okay soon anyway... as soon as I can afford one.. $2,000.00 a month is still a little steep... 10 years maybe? Mass production?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ysb-Oko3Bg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ysb-Oko3Bg
CYBERDYNE (http://www.cyberdyne.jp/english/)
I remember seeing this before a long time ago, but it was the US Army that was demonstrating field combat items....most likely Darpa!....Not as slick looking as this but tech is coming/changing hard and fast!
I'm quite impressed with their medical application of their technology. That is Slick!
I've done work in the past for this company in New Zealand which bear's a similar concept in health rehabilitation called Rex Bionics.
http://www.rexbionics.com/
Whats quite interesting as you point out Sarge, is that it's not matter of time now, it's more down to who you back on the stockmarket if one is into gambling :D
I do get irked a bit by all this only because we can be so much more, and people are not doing any work for themselves. We can learn so many tradition's that help health beyond what medicine acknowledges or at time's even want's to look at so it seem's at time's.
At work today I was having a "Ciggy" chatting to the Auto Electrician across the road about many different topic's but one came up about my smoking and riding to work. The conversation continued with myself saying how unfit people are when I have the best Cardio in a whole company division and I smoke. What a freaking joke :(
Anyway (mini rant aside) I do think this tech is very cool. Seeing someone be able to use their limbs again in modern society without the use of a traditional system of hard work ethic's is cool. It may just bring people around the Force:D
Quote from: Sgt.Rocknroll on March 15, 2015, 01:25:09 PM
I remember seeing this before a long time ago, but it was the US Army that was demonstrating field combat items....most likely Darpa!....Not as slick looking as this but tech is coming/changing hard and fast!
There is a DARPA video that I had and can't find/ Shows a soldier with one of the DARPA frame prototype climbing effortlessly up a rocky slope with a 500 pould back pack Maybe someone can find this. The article at the time said DARPA was going to release this to assist civilians with disability
Here is one arm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuMXupWprqo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuMXupWprqo
Found it...
First Look At A Darpa-Funded Exoskeleton For Super Soldiers
(http://blogs-images.forbes.com/bruceupbin/files/2014/10/Ekso-Bionics-3.jpg)
They take the cyborg thing seriously at Ekso Bionics. A wall of sci-fi movie posters—RoboCop, Iron Man, Transformers, The Terminator–line the snack room at the 8-year-old company in the historic Ford Motor assembly plant in Richmond, Calif. Engineers and technicians in the open, sunlit space fish around in parts bins for tiny screws, hydraulic tubing and velcro straps. Others peer through magnifying lenses while they craft custom circuit boards that control the exoskeletons that Ekso sells to rehab clinics and hospitals. One of the units being prepped for shipment is hooked up to a motion-controller for testing, dancing herky-jerky to its own music as it cycles through a diagnostic loop.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2014/10/29/first-look-at-a-darpa-funded-exoskeleton-for-super-soldiers/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2W23ysgWKI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2W23ysgWKI
Figures it is made by Lockheed :D
Hey LSWONE can you hook me up? 8)
Becoming more and more interesting 8) perhaps there will be units available soon for me and you, Z; still makes me ponder just how far advanced they already are since they are letting us see this much...
The powered armor concept that Robert Heinlein detailed in his novel "Starship Troopers" so long ago is becoming a reality as are so many other things envisioned by sci-fi writers of the 20th century...
8)
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