Elder-Assist Robotic Suits, From the Real Cyberdyne

Re-post from Slashdot

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| Elder-Assist Robotic Suits, From the Real Cyberdyne                                          |
|   from the how-do-you-know-it’s-not-the-same-one dept.                                       |
|   posted by timothy on Sunday October 25, @04:02 (Robotics)                                  |
|   https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/10/25/0050256/Elder-Assist-Robotic-Suits-From-the-Re|
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Tasha26 writes “No, not the one which will end up building terminator
robots. [0]BBC’s Click brings news of a Japanese company, [1]Cyberdyne,
which is in the process of building different [2]robotic suits to assist
the elderly in accomplishing simple body tasks such as walking and
lifting. Even though still in R&D, this [3]video (@3m15s) shows a pretty
promising future for the elderly.”

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http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/10/25/0050256

Links:
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/
1. http://www.cyberdyne.jp/English/
2. http://www.cyberdyne.jp/English/robotsuithal/index.html
3. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/8322790.stm