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Robotic exoskeleton makes for real-life RoboCop
posted by arvana 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago • 6981 views
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Beat me by 1 hr and 23 minutes, arvana. **a tear**


written by kronosposeidon  | 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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Sorry dude. I'm still not sure this isn't a dupe anyway.


written by arvana  | 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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So sorry downvoted by mistake in main listing


written by Farhad2000  | 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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Aaaargh, now it's doomed to the bottom of the pile!


written by arvana  | 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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Thanks. You just made me nerdgasm myself.


written by dag  | 1 year 7 months 1 week ago | CH
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*requeue


written by arvana  | 1 year 7 months 1 week ago | CH
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Re-queueing this video for one more try; last queued Thursday, November 22nd, 2007 7:24pm PST - requeue requested by submitter arvana.


written by siftbot  | 1 year 7 months 1 week ago | CH
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Wow! Really impressive! Upvoted! But the main problem is the same in every new technology.... the batteries.


written by 8588  | 1 year 7 months 1 week ago | CH
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Hmm i wonder how the exosceleton decides how much force to put into certain movements. How does the computer know that he's supposed to shake the hand instead of crushing it?

And besides: Those guys aren't the first ones who tried that sort of thing. But who knows, maybe they are the ones to finally succeed...


written by conan  | 1 year 7 months 1 week ago | CH
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Wow - even though it needs a constant power supply right now, it's still useful as hell! Loading aircraft with munitions, working in warehouses, lifting patients in hospitals - the uses of this thing are endless. Hell, they would be great in field artillery for moving the projectiles around (minimum 95 lbs.) and moving the howitzers (16,000 lbs).


written by MarineGunrock  | 1 year 7 months 1 week ago | CH
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w00t, Robert Heinleins vision for starship troopers finally becomes a reality.


written by Fade  | 1 year 7 months 1 week ago | CH
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Noooooo.....Skynet..


written by MycroftHomlz  | 1 year 7 months 1 week ago | CH
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Did it say it needed a constant supply? I just heard that it was tethered as a precaution, you know, Skynet and all that.


written by messenger  | 1 year 7 months 1 week ago | CH
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Hey Mom, you know Christmas is coming up, and I was just looking at this nifty thing on the Sift, and well...


written by messenger  | 1 year 7 months 1 week ago | CH
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I want one for christmas too


written by sillma  | 1 year 7 months 1 week ago | CH
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Sarcos is pretty cool place. I got a tour of their research facility by the guy near the end of the video (Steve Jacobsen) and saw the exoskeleton in person. It's just as bad ass as you can imagine. One interesting note, at the time they had no restraints which would stop you from punching yourself... which might leave a bruise.

They are working on some awesome stuff boys and girls.


written by fizziks  | 1 year 7 months 1 week ago | CH
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Dead or alive, you're coming with me.


written by bhyphenlow  | 1 year 7 months 1 week ago | CH
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Like MG said, even though it is tethered, thats only a problem if you want to have soldiers wearing these things non stop in the field. But when a soldier works in a area where tethering is possible, i.e. warehouses and stuff.. wow. I can think of a slew of uses this thing has.


written by 8317  | 1 year 7 months 1 week ago | CH
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"I want one for christmas too"

Seconded, it'd be for getting work done. I wouldn't play with the thing for days on end at all I swear, certainly wouldn't use it for evil.


written by Crosswords  | 1 year 7 months 1 week ago | CH
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If they designed it to learn how to walk (or do other things) and move from the humans input then this could very well change a lot.

looks like it has handles, could monitor input like a joystick, if the handle is moving forward in relation to where the arm is, the Exoskele ups the power on the arm? thats how i'd have done it at least. Next stop exo-squad!


written by Lethin  | 1 year 7 months 1 week ago | CH
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Get away from her you BITCH!


written by AnimalsForCrackers  | 1 year 7 months 1 week ago | CH
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*geek-rage

Robocop was a cyborg, not exoskeleton. His missing body parts were replaced by machine parts, including pieces of his brain.


written by legacy0100  | 1 year 7 months 1 week ago | CH
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Invocations (geek) cannot be called by legacy0100 because legacy0100 is not privileged - sorry.


written by siftbot  | 1 year 7 months 1 week ago | CH
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Lethin & Conan: The exoskelton hasn't been "taught" how to walk, or how firmly to grasp certain objects. It is quite literally an Amplifier of human movement.

There are no joysticks to control it's movement. You step inside, and it reacts to your movements naturally. Think of it like the accelerator in your car: the harder you press it the faster you go, and you are able to interpolate how hard you should press to maintain a certain speed. This is much more complicated obviously as it's monitoring all your movements and if the measurements are wrong, things can ... go badly... But if done properly, the operator should be able to accurately control how hard he/she wants to grasp, punch, kick, pull, etc very naturally.

RE: Batteries. They already have it working on batteries, and remember the operator won't be the one carrying them around, they will be supported by the exoskeleton. Problem: they only last 15-minutes, and much like our lovely laptops, cellphones and iPods, have been known to be potentially... volatile.


written by fizziks  | 1 year 7 months 1 week ago | CH
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Bad ass!!!
Can i even say that?


written by Mgshadow  | 1 year 7 months 1 week ago | CH
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More Aliens than Robocop. Very cool tho....


written by dystopianfuturetoday  | 1 year 7 months 1 week ago | CH
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Tags for this video have been changed from 'mechanical, assist, sarcos, halo' to 'mechanical, assist, sarcos, halo, raytheon, iron man' - edited by therealblankman


written by siftbot  | 1 year 2 months ago | CH
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