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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

The Power Loader Exoskeleton

Filed under: Rehab


The Japanese are continuing to develop robotic devices that want to solve problems that don't really exist. Here's a force-feedback enabled exoskeleton that Gizmodo describes as a "dual-arm power amplification robot" that "uses 18 electromagnetic motors that let the wearer lift 220lbs without blinking."

More from Gizmodo: Power Loader Exoskeleton Gives Superhuman Strength...

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This does solve an existing problem. Don't you remember the finale in Aliens? Sigourney Weaver could not have dispatched of that alien without her exo-skeleton fork loader.


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