At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, technology journalist Evan Ackerman was the first person in the U.S. to walk in a robot suit called Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL). The exoskeleton was created by Cyberdyne, a Japanese company that envisions the suit assisting physically disabled people, though the company has been contacted by the U.S. Army, which may be interested in testing the suit, according to a story on IEEE Spectrum’s Automation Blog. Apparently all you have to do once inside the suit is think about moving and the suit takes over.
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This is pretty amazing to me because 1. My dad, who is also named Hal, has MS and uses a mobility scooter. This would be...
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Terminator movies. So, uhm, yeah. I, for one, welcome our new cyborg overlords.
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