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HAL-5 Robotic Suit Ready For Mass Production

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

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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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Robot Worn On Your Body Can Increase Your Strength

Tags: Exoskeleton + Hybrid Assistive Limb + HAL + Yoshiyuki Sankai + Tsukuba University

Kenshi
Posted by Kenshi 2 years 3 months ago

An exoskeleton that can be worn by a human is a new type of robot under development at Tsukuba University. It's called Hybrid Assistive Limb, HAL for short, and anyone who wears it has potential to lift up to 10-times the weight they normally could.

“It depends on his original power, because this robot suit is controlled by the assist ratio,” says Yoshiyuki Sankai of Tsukuba University. “Usually we set it at 50% or 60% or 70%. If he is a very weak person we set the assist ratio at 90%, so at that time you say 10 times.”

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