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New HAL Exoskeleton: A Brain-Controlled Full Body Suit To Be Used In Fukushima

Posted by samzenpus on from the suit-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Cyberdyne announced today an improved version of the HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) robotic exoskeleton at the Japan Robot Show. From the article: 'he latest version of the HAL has remained brain-controlled but evolved to a full body robot suit that protects against heavy radiation without feeling the weight of the suit. Eventually it could be used by workers dismantling the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant."

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  1. Open the exoskeleton hands Hal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm afraid I can't do that Dave.

  2. Cyberdyne created HAL. by MrQuacker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, this will end well.

    1. Re:Cyberdyne created HAL. by JWSmythe · · Score: 5, Funny

          Cyberdyne, the fictional creator of Skynet, which made the fictional Terminator, bears the same name as Cyberdyne, the real company, who just released a fully functional brain operated exeoskeleton robot?

          Or that they made a possibly-autonomous robot named HAL, the same as the fictional computer which had a bad habit of killing people?

          Include Cybermen and/or Daleks, and we're one brain-snatching away from three different sci-fi universes colliding with reality.

          That may not be all that bad, as long as a guy with a blue box that's larger on the inside than the outside, shows up to give me a ride off of this rock. ... and just remember, only 63 more shopping days until doomsday.

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      Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
  3. Does it come with a crowbar? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's your Mark 1 HEV suit Gordon