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June 15, 2005
Robot suit
Japanese engineering brilliance offers us some hope in the coming war with the machines. This robot suit may be just the powered exoskeleton we have been looking for.
"Humans may be able to mutate into supermen in the near future," said Yoshiyuki Sankai, professor and engineer at Tsukuba University who led the project. The 15-kilogram (33-pound) battery-powered suit, code-named HAL-5, detects muscle movements through electrical-signal flows on the skin surface and then amplifies them.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at June 15, 2005 08:07 AM
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