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Japan Displays Prototype Robot Suit

Posted by samzenpus on from the robotech-lite dept.

anaesthetica writes "A project at Tsukuba University has produced a battery-powered robot suit designed to aid the wearer in strength-related tasks, like lifting heavy objects. The suit also has the capability of propelling itself, which is potentially useful for helping the handicapped or elderly walk. The optimistic professor who lead the project stated, 'Humans may be able to mutate into supermen in the near future.'"

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  1. Obviously... by soupdevil · · Score: 5, Funny

    This optimistic inventor is not familiar with The Wrong Trousers.

  2. I dunno... by ScentCone · · Score: 5, Funny

    If that guy can't pick up that small Japanese woman anyway, then that suite better do a lot of other stuff, too.

    But since she's not that much of a payload, the pictures might as well be of a guy wearing a Stormtrooper costume doing deep knee bends.

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    1. Re:I dunno... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 5, Funny

      If that guy can't pick up that small Japanese woman anyway, then that suite better do a lot of other stuff, too.

      Have you not seen Japanese anime before? The dorky guy always gets his butt kicked by the schoolgirls. The dorky guy needs a power suit to protect himself when tangling with the opposite sex.

  3. scary by Eric+Smith · · Score: 5, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our new geriatric and quadriplegic robot-suit overlords.

  4. Lift "heavy loads" by Ghostgate · · Score: 5, Funny

    I like the picture caption that says the robot suit will help you lift "heavy loads", while the picture shows the guy carrying a woman. I'm sure she will be thrilled to find herself described in such a way. ;)

  5. The tide is turning... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...a whole new chapter in the jocks vs. nerds war.

  6. Supermen? by ThatsNotFunny · · Score: 5, Funny

    Humans may be able to mutate into supermen in the near future

    Ironicly, I just got Viagra Spam that used that exact same phrasing...

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  7. Wait till you see what happens.. by NanoGator · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... when you put five of these together!!

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