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Elder-Assist Robotic Suits, From the Real Cyberdyne

Posted by timothy on from the how-do-you-know-it's-not-the-same-one dept.

Tasha26 writes "No, not the one which will end up building terminator robots. BBC's Click brings news of a Japanese company, Cyberdyne, which is in the process of building different robotic suits to assist the elderly in accomplishing simple body tasks such as walking and lifting. Even though still in R&D, this video (@3m15s) shows a pretty promising future for the elderly."

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  1. Oh come on now! by skornenicholas · · Score: 5, Funny

    They named their company Cyberdyne and later realized their mistake did they? I highly doubt this, clever marketing though. On the other hand I have a coworker who IS actually named John Conner, poor man we covered his office in tin foil while he was on vacation, left him a nice note explaining that we are trying to hide him from satellite surveillance. Did lead to one of the greatest owned moments I have ever seen, our boss from NJ was handing out our new Blackberry Tours, everyone on the IT team got one but John, Jay says "I just thought in the interest of personal safety....these things have GPS tracking you know." He did actually get one of course, but not before we set his ringtone to say "Come with me if you want to live." and play the theme.

    1. Re:Oh come on now! by Razalhague · · Score: 4, Funny

      Bah. It's robots. The rest is irrelevant details.

    2. Re:Oh come on now! by skornenicholas · · Score: 5, Funny

      Oh please anyone with the last name of "Punchmyballs" would be given a free pass in my office, we would assume he had been through enough in High School. However we WOULD promote him to a job where he would be known as Mister Punchmyballs, give him a public facing office with a plaque, and send him to corporate overnights.

  2. Re:Ironically by Blue+Shifted · · Score: 4, Funny

    at least it's better than a robotic "Reach Around"