Finally, a ROBOT SUIT!

Baby steps to POWERED BATTLE ARMOUR !

I`ve read "robot slut" ))))))))))))))) Is it new army technology? :)

preety soon we all become like the borg. what a cool suit.

all comedic responses aside, can you imagine the elation a person confined to a wheelchair would feel being given the ability to walk again by the use of this device?

It's enough to make you get all misty thinking about it.

Just imagine for a second that elation and joy and sudden return to a semblance of normal life for those people.

Very cool!

I'm pretty sure this would actually be considered an exoskeleton. There are actually other suits similar to this that have been in use in japan for a while but are mostly just lower body suits. They are mostly used by nurses to help move around the heavier patients that would normally take more then one person to move. There is also a suit being developed here in the US by Raytheon that is far superior to this.

http://www.raytheon.com/
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-04/building-real-iron-man

this is definitly something that i gotta have

This has to be a joke. Cyberdyne, HAL, and the Aliens exo-suit all in one story?!

Yeah...not going to lie, it looks like shit, and cheap at that. I know this is probably just a prototype. Would it kill them to give you some full body coverage?

I don't know about you guys...but, I think I know where a few peoples overly large government paychecks are going...

got terminator?

I know what I'm gonna ask Santa for X-mas!!!!

he needs to have better hair

so, it increases your strength by tenfold, but requires you to lift with your hands? FAIL. the minute that guy tries to lift a dumpster or something his hands will get crushed. and still no miniguns or rocket launchers? hehe naa, other than the serious flaw when it would come to lifting this thing is cool.

I love this company. I am so glad they have not only a sense of humor but are actualy working towards fixing the scary problems we have percieved in science fiction. One of the companies founders Karl Macdorman teaches at IUPUI in my home town. He heads the only android studies department in America.

Why..on gods earth.. would you want one of the worlds first commercial robotic suits named after a computer that's too smart and starts to kill people, and created by a corporation named with the same name of the one responsible that causes the genocide of humanity by machines. Does their marketing department know all of this...?

He looks like he's been covered in toiler paper and cardboard ... high tech

I'm just thinking . . . wherever he is in the world, I'm sure that "Tron Guy" just creamed in his pants over the robotic suit with blue circular lights! . . . that's ok, I might just have as well.

But, great post Delia. Exoskeletons are freaking awesome!

For those inclined to want more information, here's a mini documentary on Cyberdyne's H.A.L. suit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT7IXfcifHE
http://www.cyberdyne.jp/english/robotsuithal/index.html

I like that it's battery powered and not tethered to a power cord like the one that's currently being designed for the US military.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNEOI7bYl3c
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-04/building-real-iron-man

Oh my god. Sarah Connor was right.

Very cool. We should send some to Iraq or Afghanistan for our Soldiers.

The future is here...

and it is fucking awesome.

If you look at that thing, this poor guys limbs are strapped onto the device.

If it is putting significantly higher pressure on his muscles, skin and the bone - not good.

If those straps are simply sensors, and the suit is creating the movement and taking the abuse, that may be a little different.

Maybe.

We should use these to fight the Mexican drug cartels.

Surely this will lead to a rift in the human race, between those who are modified by technology and those who are not. The latter will be destroyed, surely. We're doomed.

OMG

I told my mom i was gonna save up to buy her something like this

this is perfect!!

:D

does it come with a fucking helmet or not ?

is it really called cyberdyne? we're fucked.

Nice i would prefer this to robots cause we all know how that ends

HAL's come a long way since 2001.

I am assuming it must be plugged into a power outlet. None the less cool, if it actually comes to fruition.

cyberdyne corporation is a real thing?
where's sarah conner when you need her?
and why is it that in this last month in particular there have been insane breakthroughs in robotics?

i want to be a robot. there. i said it.

Finally!

this thing is awesome, straight HALO style...
I'll put it on my list of way too expenisve awesome technoligies I can not yet afford (right under the ps3)

If they just can get Sigourney Weaver to model it, they'll have hit the Sci Fi Trifecta.

Great, just wait till it goes haywire and rips your limbs off.

Cyberdyne systems? You've got to be kidding me.