We just saw a robot suit in person at NextFest, but this one here looks even more impressive than the one we checked out. Designed to help nurses pick up and carry the infirm around, the robotic exoskeleton seems like it could also be used to help you carry couches up fourth floor walkups and the like. Or really impressing people at the gym, if you could somehow hide it under a really big sweatsuit. In any case, it has a number of uses, as you can tell by my kind of bad ideas for it. The way the technology is moving, by the time you're old and helpless you might have a nurse that cradles you in her warm, exoskeleton arms. It'll either be comforting or it'll give you a heart attack. Boy, won't that be great?
Wearable Power Assist Suit, via The Raw Feed
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By Streaky at 9:04 AM ON 11/02/06
I hope that's not as far as that gadget's evolution takes it. That thing looks like it could be good for something...
I wonder if that thing could be adapted for those of us with Arthritis, to ease walking, or picking up and carrying heavy objects ~100lbs to 200lbs...
This looks the wave of the future is cresting, cresting into a tsunami.
By DreadPirateRobots at 10:43 PM ON 11/02/06
Helping the infirmed and elderly is all well and good, but WHERE ARE THE CHAINSAW HANDS?! Well, regardless, by the time I'm done paying off my next-gen gaming platforms, I should be able to buy one of these bad boys...
By ppeirce at 12:30 PM ON 11/08/06
Hmmm... I was told once, in recovery training, to think of the dead as "cord wood" - now the elderly are "Loaves of Bread". How dehumanizing.
Well, I would like to see a later version of a robotic power assist exoskeletal suit used in Emergency Medical Services. From vehicle extrication to getting the 400 pound patient downstairs from the third floor, this would be a truly remarkable tool. Not to mention, of course, the reduction in work related injuries in the EMS field...
Respectfully Submitted,
P. Peirce, NREMT, MAEMT, ITLS