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Robotic Suit Gives Shipyard Workers Super Strength

Posted by samzenpus on from the power-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes Ship-builders Daewoo have been testing robotic exoskeletons in South Korean shipyards that provide the wearer with super-human strength. From the article: "The exoskeleton fits anyone between 160 and 185 centimetres tall. Workers do not feel the weight of its 28-kilogram frame of carbon, aluminium alloy and steel, as the suit supports itself and is engineered to follow the wearer's movements. With a 3-hour battery life, the exoskeleton allows users to walk at a normal pace and, in its prototype form, it can lift objects with a mass of up to 30 kilograms."

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  1. Only geeks... by funwithBSD · · Score: 5, Insightful

    would consider lifting 30Kg to be superhuman.

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    1. Re:Only geeks... by MozeeToby · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Now go out and lift it once per minute for 3 hours and see how you feel.

    2. Re: Only geeks... by Jeremi · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Prototype, people, it's a prototype.

      I'm all for alien-crushing super-robot strength too, just not while the software is still in beta :^)

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  2. No SCV comments? by rogoshen1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm disappointed in the Slashdot of today. All of these comments, and not one person making wise about Koreans playing Starcraft and deciding to develop their own SCV's.