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    HAL Robo-Suit Exoskeleton Hits the Streets of Tokyo

    HAL Robot Exoskeletons Available for Rent
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    Image of mono2is mono2is
    09/10/09

    In reply to HAL Robo-Suit Exoskeleton Hits the Streets of Tokyo
    Well, this is a prediction of mine I've been maintaing for years now:

    What costs more: adapting all the buildings in all the cities and all the street crosses for people with disabilities or develop a technology such this to allow them get ANYwhere??

    I think more and more on the latter... and as time passes it's even more clear!
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    Image of Benguin Benguin
    09/10/09

    In reply to HAL Robo-Suit Exoskeleton Hits the Streets of Tokyo
    A company called Cyberdyne creating a "robot" named HAL?

    Yeah, nothing foreboding about that at all...

    What's next, Cylons?
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    Image of alpha24seven alpha24seven
    09/10/09

    In reply to HAL Robo-Suit Exoskeleton Hits the Streets of Tokyo
    They will never sell that here in the US. Imagine lifting 10x weight of anything and it borks. The ambulance chaser law firms are already taping commercials to ding these guys.

    "Has your super exoskeleton suit ever failed while you were lifting 1,000 pounds? Call Dewey, Cheatem Andhow today for a FREE consultation. We can't replace 200 broken bones but we can get you cash. Call now, operators are waiting."

    I love/hate this country very much.
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    Image of Danny Allen Danny Allen
    09/10/09

    @alpha24seven: That made me laugh so hard I snorted a wee bit. Nice one. :)
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    09/10/09

    In reply to HAL Robo-Suit Exoskeleton Hits the Streets of Tokyo
    I never knew the Hardware Abstraction Layer physically existed.
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    Image of something_unique_and_descriptive something_unique_and_descriptive
    09/10/09

    @Geisrud: The sad thing is, most people on this site won't get that.
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    Image of mschex mschex
    09/10/09

    In reply to HAL Robo-Suit Exoskeleton Hits the Streets of Tokyo
    it seems like i could just tape some plastic tubing to my legs and say that it helps me walk up stairs. then i could get featured on gizmodo.
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    Image of Danny Allen Danny Allen
    09/10/09

    @mschex: Yes, that's all the technology involved here. You're completely right.
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    Image of dimsum4u dimsum4u
    09/10/09

    In reply to HAL Robo-Suit Exoskeleton Hits the Streets of Tokyo
    Ok...so I don't get it. I was expecting some amazing video, like when they were waiting for the cars to pass they were going to jump over to the other side and just avoid the cars. Sorry for being a skeptic but it just doesn't seem all that great they were walking around, for all we know these were just plastic pieces on their bodies. Now it would be a different story if one of them actually wasn't able to walk without being assisted, and these legs now help them walk. But I don't think that is the case.
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    Image of ninjagin ninjagin
    09/10/09

    In reply to HAL Robo-Suit Exoskeleton Hits the Streets of Tokyo
    For my part, I wanted to see them hiking the stairs out of Monzen-Nakacho station about fifty times. -=That=- would be something to see, and real proof that these things are assisting the wearer.
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    Image of invictus2006 invictus2006
    09/10/09

    In reply to HAL Robo-Suit Exoskeleton Hits the Streets of Tokyo
    That video reminds me of the time when I was given an Exo Skeleton suit. Fuck I couldn’t stand for shit in that thing but after a while I was doing flips and shit, even transforming into a car, hell I even had my part in saving an entire robotic civilisation and my dad due to that suit….The good ol days…Brings a tear to my eye
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    Image of fueled by sound fueled by sound
    09/10/09

    In reply to HAL Robo-Suit Exoskeleton Hits the Streets of Tokyo
    Bonus feature: realistic horse clopping sound!
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    09/10/09

    @fueled by sound: or are they just being followed by coconut wielding assistants?
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    Image of maven2k maven2k
    09/10/09

    @fueled by sound: "RUN AWAY!!!!"
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    09/10/09

    In reply to HAL Robo-Suit Exoskeleton Hits the Streets of Tokyo
    They way they are swinging their arms makes them look like they are packing two six shooters.
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    Image of Yamhead Yamhead
    09/10/09

    In reply to HAL Robo-Suit Exoskeleton Hits the Streets of Tokyo
    You can clearly see the girl's walking gait(hip area) , it's much more obvious when compared to the man's. 0.o
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    Image of DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star. DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star.
    09/10/09

    @Yamhead: And if you were wearing cellophane pants we could clearly see you're nuts.
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    Image of Yamhead Yamhead
    09/10/09

    @DeusExMach believes you have his stapler: I'm not crazy I tell ya! NOT CRAZY!!
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    Image of Invisible-Echidna Invisible-Echidna
    09/10/09

    In reply to HAL Robo-Suit Exoskeleton Hits the Streets of Tokyo
    So, does it just make me an active lazy person, or can I go building hopping and stuff?
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    Image of drewdrawsLA drewdrawsLA
    09/10/09

    In reply to HAL Robo-Suit Exoskeleton Hits the Streets of Tokyo
    It sure seems to me that the chick in the middle is feeling that weight. She looks like she's slogging through 2 feet of snow and almost tripped a couple of times.

    I'm intrigued by these devices, but feel like they still need to be smaller to be really useful.

    Oh, and BTW, $2300/month! Who could afford that? Are Cyberdyne HALs going to be the new rich d-bag transportation of choice? HAL polo, etc?
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    Image of pz pz
    09/10/09

    @DrewTweetsToo: I think it's just that the designers didn't compensate for the greater swinging hip motion of a woman's body.
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    Image of kozi kozi
    09/10/09

    @pz: just a recurrent japanese woman problem, bended legs... knees touching each other with duck feet, they think it looks cute, and keep this malformation for life (same phaenomena appears in HK as well)
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    Image of drewdrawsLA drewdrawsLA
    09/10/09

    @kozi: I understand that it's her gait that makes it awkward, but then these don't make a lot of sense for the population they're built for.
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    Image of bustedchain bustedchain
    09/10/09

    In reply to HAL Robo-Suit Exoskeleton Hits the Streets of Tokyo
    Wake me when these things can box and lift incredible weights as if they were nothing... I'm hitting snooze until then... (Check out the video around 1:22)
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    09/10/09

    @bustedchain: We've pretty much all seen this, but it's been a while. Autonomous exoskeleton, eh? you know... if CYBERDYNE buys Sarcos, and then buys British Airline SKYNET...
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