Tag: Cyberdyne

HAL-5 Robotic Suit Ready For Mass Production

Tags: HAL-5 + Cyberdyne + Hybrid Assistive Limb + HAL + Yoshiyuki Sankai + Tsukuba University

Kenshi
Posted by Kenshi 2 years 1 month ago; via japanese.engadget.com/200...

HAL-5 ($42,273) is getting ready for "mass production." Cyberdyne has embraced the overwhelming potential available in a fully robotic suit, which could prove handy in such applications such as "walking assistance and rehabilitation, nursing, factory work and disaster relief." Having already assisted a paralyzed individual (almost) summit a mountain, the robotic suit will reportedly find itself in hospital wards in Tsukuba city (alongside the HOSPI, presumably) soon, and the company plans to produce "20 units" by 2007, while ramping up to...

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