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Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Bow to Mecha

This is the Timberjack forest walker, a car sized mechanical bug designed to move through forests with minimal impact on the environment.



Click here to see videos of the Timberjack in action. (I first saw this at Kung fu Monkey's blog.)

I knew there were other Mech projects in various stages of development, so I wanted to collect some here.

Click on the pictures below to take you to the article, home page, or videos !

This crazy egg thing is called the i-foot, designed to help handicapped (or lazy) people up stairs.

This is the Power Assist Suit, currently being rolled out in Japan to help nurses lift patients.

Here is a more utilitarian exo-suit from the University of Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton project.

Availible in slimming black and snappy dress greens

This monster is the T-52 Enryu Hyper Rescue Robot. Don't let this picture fool you, it weighs 5 tons and can tear apart a car (with videos to prove it !)

Luckily this is only the T-52. The robots won't be able to pass for human until at least the T-800 series.

The merger of man and machine is closer than we realize.

Why not get your cyborg name now?

>>>>>End Transmission



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