LG's 'wearable robot' will transform the proletariat into unstoppable machines

Yay fun!!

CNET

The CLOi SuitBot is a robotic exoskeleton designed to "support and enhance a user's legs", giving people like factory workers and people doing heavy lifting or operating heavy tools greater strength and mobility.

Fun. So now you can leap over building and run 200 mile's an hour. JK.

It's not the first exoskeleton we've seen that purports to give humans superhuman strength. Hyundai and Japanese company Cyberdyne have both shown off medical exoskeletons designed to assist people with low mobility, while Ford is also working on a design that reduces strain for workers doing over-head tasks.

Great for people with special needs or disabilities.

What I would do is connect these robots to the network and have them funnel data back to my data center where it's used to analyze movement patterns to use in my next robot design especially for people using these at work.

Robot apocalypse continues.

Cyberdyne?

The same company that gave us skynet and terminators?

a reply to: abe froman

don't worry, work 70 hours a week and pay taxes and shutup

don't vote either

a reply to: abe froman

The military has been working on this for decades.

And they aren't the only ones,

The main draw back is power, and actual usability.

If LGS snip actually works?

Good on them.

If it don't.

This is only the beginning.

a reply to: toysforadults

Exoskeletons are cool and will make a heavy workload easier to move around.

They will also contribute to less employment, and taken to the logical conclusion, won't require the operator.

Can't stop progress all the same.

a reply to: neo96

We could build a right a good few creations of science fiction should we ever devise a viable power source or decent form of battery.

Personally, i imagine the future lies with wireless power transmission to these sorts of power-hungry devices, it can be done just now to a limited fashion.

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It might be viable if they do that and harness the kinetic energy like they've done with watches, and electric vehicles.

originally posted by: neo96
The military has been working on this for decades.

And they aren't the only ones,

The main draw back is power, and actual usability.

If LGS snip actually works?

Good on them.

If it don't.

This is only the beginning.

Oh I bet DARPA has much better much much better tech than this

originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: toysforadults

Exoskeletons are cool and will make a heavy workload easier to move around.

They will also contribute to less employment, and taken to the logical conclusion, won't require the operator.

Can't stop progress all the same.

they need to collect data on how people move and equip labor workers like trade workers with this kind of gear and just record their movements and build it into a stream for the robot

a reply to: neo96

I was thinking more along the lines of the system that Nikola Tesla devised in far-field or radiative energy transmission utilizing resonant coupling, but there are still quite a few hurdles to overcome.

Might not even be viable at extreme distance, nevermind the implications associated with all wireless power systems and the exposure of people and other living things to potentially injurious electromagnetic fields.

Then again let's see whether or not our race survives 5G first before putting the cart before the horse.

a reply to: toysforadults

Goddard meta information.

originally posted by: abe froman
Cyberdyne?

The same company that gave us skynet and terminators?

Dont worry about it. Surely that's just one of Google's shell companies, and Google loves all the little sheople, all the sheeple in the world.

So it's just a fancy forklift?

a reply to: andy06shake

I know.

And it would be infinitely worse than cell phone radiation.

The Tesla system would not work in the 21st century.

Cancer clusters, and all from power lines, and cell towers.

a reply to: andy06shake

pretty much

originally posted by: BrianFlanders
So it's just a fancy forklift?

Ew. Ew.

originally posted by: neo96
a reply to: andy06shake

It might be viable if they do that and harness the kinetic energy like they've done with watches, and electric vehicles.

Those two things are not even the same.

Can’t wait until we can fight to the death wearing something like this for fame, fortune, or by that time probably just food and rent.

The Snoqflakes will be able to spend hours on their knees now! Progress!

a reply to: toysforadults