Japan Displays Prototype Robot Suit

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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Handicapped people won't be helped

[Dancin_Santa]

It works by enhancing muscle movements. You move a muscle a little, the exoskeleton translates that into a much larger movement.

Handicapped people (paras, quads) do not have muscle control in their handicapped limbs, so this exoskeleton can't help them.

You know, I'm a simple man

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't ask much of this world.

There's only one thing I want to do before I die, something I've wanted to do since I was 8 years old and heard "Like a Virgin" for the first time. That's right, I want to pound Madonna in the ass, long and hard.

Is that so much to ask?

And how does this help Programmers?

[daviq]

And how does this help programmers?

Re:Mod Parent (-1, Lack of Reading Comprehension)

[King_of_Prussia]

Do I know you sir? Or are you an inhabitant of the USian town I (unwittingly) named myself after?