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    Honda's Groin-Threatening Robo-Legs Demonstrated On Video

    Honda Robo-Legs Help Mobility at the Expense of Fertility

    US Military Pretty Much Commissions a Real-Life Gordon Freeman Power Suit
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    11/10/08

    In reply to Honda's Groin-Threatening Robo-Legs Demonstrated On Video
    Yes, I'm sure that the people helped by this will be put off by the "hilariously female gait".


    I guess you had to try to ding it somewhere. Whatever.

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    11/10/08

    In reply to Honda's Groin-Threatening Robo-Legs Demonstrated On Video
    This is great tech, but I have nightmarish images of crowds of people migrating a street, all with robo assist legs, all looking like John Cleese. Those crazy Japanese! got to love'em!
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    11/10/08

    In reply to Honda's Groin-Threatening Robo-Legs Demonstrated On Video
    Ironically, it takes a lot of balls to go for a ride up stairs with a Honda-made robot.
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    11/07/08

    In reply to Honda Robo-Legs Help Mobility at the Expense of Fertility
    What about fat people or people with big feet...
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    11/07/08

    In reply to Honda Robo-Legs Help Mobility at the Expense of Fertility
    If this is for the elderly, I just have to ask: what if they are wearing Depends, or other adult diapers?
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    11/07/08

    In reply to Honda Robo-Legs Help Mobility at the Expense of Fertility
    SO these aren't motorized at all, right? More like a chair with legs, if I understand it correctly.


    Well, I suppose that could be handy for a lot of folks. Much as one may make light, there are a lot of people in this country and others that have mobility problems, and taking care of them is a multibillion dollar expense that I'm sure everyone wishes could be used in other ways. Something like gives folks more autonomy and reduces the need for human assistance, which is increasingly scarce and costly in the US and Japan. And if it gives someone with severe arthritis, back problems, hip problems, or some other disease the ability to get up and around on their own, I'm all for it.


    As for using it with factory workers, that does seem rather dystopian, but not much more than the period we're already it. Wake up and smell the dystopia people, the future is now.

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    11/07/08

    In reply to Honda Robo-Legs Help Mobility at the Expense of Fertility
    And when it develops sentience, the robot legs will be in perfect position to cock-punch the pathetic and weak human.


    Don't engineers factor in the Robot Uprising factor when designing this stuff?

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    11/07/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: I laughed hard.

    This is the sort of stuff I would really enjoy testing. Like, jump down 30 flights of stairs, see if I break my legs.
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    11/08/08

    @Sanjo: i would be more worried about the legs locking up and breaking my balls...
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    11/04/08

    In reply to US Military Pretty Much Commissions a Real-Life Gordon Freeman Power Suit
    It's a shame the military and UCSD are so stupid that they haven't already thought of these moronic objections to what appears to be very beneficial tech, both for military and civilian use. (Note: Not all the objections were moronic, I'll leave it to the individual to decide which is which.)
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    11/04/08

    @GadgetPlay: Hey hey, I defend my moronic objections. The military NEEDS someone to think of the stuff SO stupid that the pros wont ever consider it. Its me or the conspiracy theorists, take your pick.
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    11/04/08

    In reply to US Military Pretty Much Commissions a Real-Life Gordon Freeman Power Suit
    Hey considering we're spending so much time in the sand perhaps they need to develop a Freman stillsuit...
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    11/04/08

    In reply to US Military Pretty Much Commissions a Real-Life Gordon Freeman Power Suit
    I am not a gamer, but I gather from the other comments that this has been done already in some combat game. And how did it turn out in the virtual world? I still get a bad vibe about it real time.
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    11/04/08

    In reply to US Military Pretty Much Commissions a Real-Life Gordon Freeman Power Suit
    Would I sound cynical if I said fear this may be used to introduce other drugs to soldiers as well? Maybe not drugs aimed at the soldiers health and well being but something to make him/her do things that they might judge as morally wrong. I hope not....but if I was cynical, I might think that.
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    11/04/08

    @Curves: All I can say is: MKULTRA
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    11/04/08

    @Curves: Well, you're going to need drugs to go out there and fight against those Geckos and Metal Gears. Any non-medicated person would see those things and just turn the other way.
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    11/04/08

    In reply to US Military Pretty Much Commissions a Real-Life Gordon Freeman Power Suit
    You know what's goanna happen don't yea? If and when it comes around, they're goanna give the manufacturing contract to the lowest bidder, who are going to

    invariably screw the soldiers.


    "In Greed We Trust" - America

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    11/04/08

    @MadCrazy: Wouldn't giving it to the lowest builder NOT be greedy? Giving to someone who is kicking back to the person who decides would be greedy. And realistically, the lowest bidder is not usually picked b/c if the bidder stands to lose money on a project, you have to worry about them going bankrupt 3/4 of the way through the build, which leaves you SOL.
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