http://www.botjunkie.com/2008/10/09/cyberdyne-exoskeleton-now-for-rent-in-japan/ Jonesing For Robot News Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:13:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.botjunkie.com/2008/10/09/cyberdyne-exoskeleton-now-for-rent-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-3420 caitlin Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:50:09 +0000 http://www.botjunkie.com/2008/10/09/cyberdyne-exoskeleton-now-for-rent-in-japan/#comment-3420 I think the functions of this suit is incredible and the idea of them helping disabled people is a nice thing. However, I don't think people that have nothing wrong with them should use this suit. We are all capable of doing things on our own and we can build our strength up by working out or doing another activities. The price for this suit is outrageous because people could be doing other things with their money instead of renting a suit to make them stronger. The idea of this suit was a good idea but in my opinion I wouldn't rent/buy it. I think the functions of this suit is incredible and the idea of them helping disabled people is a nice thing. However, I don’t think people that have nothing wrong with them should use this suit. We are all capable of doing things on our own and we can build our strength up by working out or doing another activities. The price for this suit is outrageous because people could be doing other things with their money instead of renting a suit to make them stronger. The idea of this suit was a good idea but in my opinion I wouldn’t rent/buy it.

]]> http://www.botjunkie.com/2008/10/09/cyberdyne-exoskeleton-now-for-rent-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-3352 Paige Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:59:33 +0000 http://www.botjunkie.com/2008/10/09/cyberdyne-exoskeleton-now-for-rent-in-japan/#comment-3352 The robot suit, HAL, is designed to enhance a humans physical efficeiency by making the person wearing it at least 5x stronger. This technological progression is something I have been ignorant of and I find that these advances are amazing, and I never thought something as helpful as this would have existed at this time. With this new technology, i hope that one day doctors can eventually find a way to reconstruct a damaged nerve impulse of a paralyzed person to eventually make them mobile again if wearing a HAL. As recent studies show (from the video) scientists in Japan are already trying to aid people with disabilities to make them mobile once again. Also, i believe that in the future, mechanism of war will change, because one day countries may be able to provide its soldiers with a bullet proof version of this robo-armor, which would change war on earth forever, essentially making it an "artificially intelligent" war. One man in the video mentioned that AI was impossible to create, which i disagree with because there is proof of Artificial Intelligence already, specifically Kismet, Cog, Leo, and Mertz. The robot suit, HAL, is designed to enhance a humans physical efficeiency by making the person wearing it at least 5x stronger. This technological progression is something I have been ignorant of and I find that these advances are amazing, and I never thought something as helpful as this would have existed at this time. With this new technology, i hope that one day doctors can eventually find a way to reconstruct a damaged nerve impulse of a paralyzed person to eventually make them mobile again if wearing a HAL. As recent studies show (from the video) scientists in Japan are already trying to aid people with disabilities to make them mobile once again. Also, i believe that in the future, mechanism of war will change, because one day countries may be able to provide its soldiers with a bullet proof version of this robo-armor, which would change war on earth forever, essentially making it an “artificially intelligent” war. One man in the video mentioned that AI was impossible to create, which i disagree with because there is proof of Artificial Intelligence already, specifically Kismet, Cog, Leo, and Mertz.

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