Cyberdyne Exoskeleton Now In Mass Production, Costs $4200
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Monday, 13 of April , 2009 at 12:43 am

Back in April of last year, we reported that Cyberdyne had begun constructing a facility to mass produce their strength-enhancing exoskeletons. The HAL exoskeleton uses sensors attached to your skin to sense when you move your limbs, and then it assists those movements, effectively increasing your strength by anywhere from 2 to 10 times, with a battery life of up to 2.5 hours.
Cyberdyne initially said that the HAL exoskeletons would be available for rent (in Japan) for about $2200 a month by the end of 2008, but it now appears that they’re ready to start selling the exoskeletons straight up for $4200 each. The only disappointing bit is that the annual production is only supposed to be 400 units, which means you and I are pretty much guaranteed not to get one. However, Cyberdyne originally planned to ramp their production up to “tens of thousands” of suits, so maybe in the next couple years… They’ll be available first in Japan, and then probably in the EU, and most likely to people with disabilities first. So yeah, it’s gonna be a while for most of the rest of us, but better maybe sometime than probably never.
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Category: Cybernetics, Medical
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Comment by arun
Made Monday, 13 of April , 2009 at 5:24 am
i love this blog
Comment by BIDOOF
Made Wednesday, 15 of April , 2009 at 11:55 am
I fapped. Long and hard.
Comment by Jon
Made Saturday, 20 of June , 2009 at 3:57 pm
how long will it be before HAL is on sale to the general public?
Comment by eleonora
Made Tuesday, 1 of December , 2009 at 1:40 pm
Can you give me any contact details of the company that offers HAL EU
Comment by Emanuel Contreras
Made Tuesday, 9 of February , 2010 at 2:05 am
HIT ME UP! I HAVE A PLAN! I’ve followed Cyberdyne for a very long time, the very moment they were introduced to the public two years ago by the Japanese…at first, obviously, this idea is rubbish; increase you strength for the hell of it? Imagine soldiers with this on…no, a better usage would be HEALING!
BUT THE DESIGN OF THE EQUIPMENT!!!! WHAT IT DOES!!!!! They have such a strong lead on technology and yet what they have is SPECTACULAR!
I have a plan that will revolutionize the medical industry by using not only this technology, but one more thing as a fuel source. And I have now only a few more plans before I can afford a suit or two for this purpose.
THE HAL reads neuron impulses from your legs that you send out via motorneurons from primarily your spinal cord, but prior to that–from your brain. OF COURSE! For without our brains we are nothing and of no use in this physical world…but imagine making a parapalegic walk again?
Imagine giving them feeling in their limbs again because of getting the help from this machine? It already increases your strength 2-10 times–BUT THERE’S A CATCH: these are people who can already move some of their limbs. It can’t move a parapalegic–YET!
But I found a solution! And a few more years and it shall happen. It is perfection and I need drastic help from across all of the US. If you love Cyberdyne and technology in general, we must chat. I have a plan that can get our generation going and at the same time, revolutionize what it means to be human. Everyone shall move.
EVERYONE PARALYZED from the neck down!! It’s so easy and yet so few companies either employ their creation in a creative way, or the very way they have created it is fanciful enough, that they stop short of a truer and awesomer experience–that of extending human life capacities or the ability to experience one’s life as they shall. Technology is the building upon one thing from another–even stem cells came from prior knowledge…everything adds up and everything is a metaphor for everything.
In which case, I want to make this reality truly happen. Within 15 years, these corporations would have mass produced them and then it’s patent rearing time…the tools are at our disposal! 15 years = millions of dollars for EVERYONE.
If you’re still reading this, I must now tell you about something I will never do. And this is simply something to state so that you know I’m not bluffing.
I WILL NEVER HARM SOMEONE PHYSICALLY, MENTALLY, EMOTIONALLY, OR FINANCIALLY in order to achieve this great reality. I can’t express this enough…any of those tactics are already employed by those currently in power and in control of a very massive amount of money that is circulating strategically throughout the country–you stock watchers know what I mean. As the result of this greed, our world has crumbled and unemployment continues to go up. It is beyond control and I have no reasons as to why–maybe too many people? Well, our generation was given this magnificent tool of something called internet (Thanks Gates and Jobs [yes, Jobs, too!])…and now I want to make a paraplegic walk. My means are healthy oriented of a medical nature–and something that MUST BE affordable to all. I will only ever continue with this plan or let anyone profit from it if they are of an evil nature. This is to benefit the human race and to improve technology in a way we’ve never seen before–TELEKINESIS (courtesy of James Aitcheson II).
I will, however, make everyone who can help me out and contribute nicely, openly, honestly, and lovingly enough to get equal share in all contributions. But I must keep this my idea for now–it’s the networking that is our job and that I’m doing starting now.
If you can contribute (i.e., money, machine producing capabilities, programming (NEEDED MOST!), marketers, communicators, neurosurgeons (simply for their knowledge OF spine and brain’s networking, but surgeon usage WILL NOT OCCUR), those with engineering backgrounds, fuel production/fuel usage/fuel maintenance/fuel abilities (even in the form of electricity), psychologists, neurologists, those who work at all hospitals who have access to medical equipment FOR EXPERIMENTAL USE to record brain signatures in NONEVASIVE ways, access to PET scans and the like, for example, people who can help sauter (burn the metal stuff to tie computer chip pieces together) computer chips together and have this ability to do so, and finally, any who are willing to contribute to the spreading and networking of this endeavor. It is because of the masses will this idea ever work. IT IS A PLAN I’VE COME UP WITH FOR EVERYONE I COME INTO CONTACT WITH. IF YOU WANT IN ON THIS IDEA, YOU’RE IN AND WE’RE MAKING MONEY. WE NEED TIME FIRST OF ALL–FIVE YEARS. IF YOU’RE THE TYPE TO LOOK AHEAD AND WHO CAN ACTUALLY CONTRIBUTE, LET’S MAKE BABIES. LOL. YOU ARE MY FRIEND AND MY COWORKER. LET’S DO THIS ALREADY AND MAKE BANK 15 YEARS FROM NOW. Contact me from Facebook. You must be logged in.
Comment by Emanuel Contreras
Made Tuesday, 9 of February , 2010 at 2:07 am
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=54501351
If this link didn’t work in the post above/if you couldn’t find me on Facebook by my name alone, THERE IS THE LINK TO MY PROFILE PAGE ABOVE!!!!!!
Thanks for reading, I hope some of you could be interested on something beautiful. Peace, love, and empathy all.
Comment by Emanuel Contreras
Made Tuesday, 9 of February , 2010 at 2:32 am
I said this and it’s WRONG!!!!
“I will only ever continue with this plan or let anyone profit from it if they are of an evil nature”
I MEANT TO SAY
“I will only Never continue with this plan or let anyone profit from it if they are of an evil nature”
Apologies for the long winded explanations and quite frankly, this ridiculous typo that makes no sense within the context of what I am striving to accomplish.