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Yamaha Branded Deus Ex Machina Motorcycle Exoskeleton On Video, Looks Tron-esque
Yamaha Branded Deus Ex Machina Motorcycle Exoskeleton: A Segway On Steroids
Art Center Pasadena student Jake Loniak has taken everything that is cool about exoskeletons and motorcycles and crammed it into this Yamaha-branded Deus Ex Machina concept motorcycle. The vehicle is powered by ultra-capacitors and doped nano-phoshpate batteries (similar to the ones currently used in hybrid cars) and it is controlled using 36 pneumatic muscles with two linear actuators set along a spine consisting of seven artificial vertebrae. Even the helmet is pneumatically attached. More »