Japanese manufacturer Cyberdyne Inc (Not to be confused with the homicidal computer company in The Terminator) plans to make 500 of these assistive limbs this year.
If you can’t be doing with upgrading your body one bit at a time then the robot suit HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb – not to be confused with the homicidal computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey) will do the job in a single, step-motored reboot.
HAL’s inventor Yoshiyuki Sankai reckons the suit can, “multiply human strength by a factor of two to ten”. It also makes you look like a gladiator from Tron.
To me it looks like a new improved upgrade to ripleys powerloader, from the film aliens, with a new over hall, looking very compact easy to use and move about, i wouldn’t mind being a tester for any other projects they have going!!
Link: Cyber Dyne
