HAL Robo-Suit Exoskeleton Hits The Streets Of Tokyo

Remember that HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) exoskeleton from the real-life Cyberdyne? Ahead of plans to rent the suit to those with mobility issues (or Iron Man fantasies), it’s now being tested on the streets of Tokyo. Here’s the video.


May 2, 2009
Entertainment

New G.I. Joe Trailer Looks Like a Bizarro Iron Man Flick

While we should all be insulted that the new G.I. Joe movie wants us take Marlon Wayans semi-seriously, I can’t hate all the Iron Man-like exoskeleton action going on in this new French trailer.


April 16, 2009

IMO Coffee Maker Looks Like An Exoskeleton

Designer Alisson Wilson Ströher’s IMO coffee maker is intended to be a compact, practical solution to household coffee making—but it looks like he picked up aesthetic cues from the HAL exoskeleton.


April 15, 2009

How It Feels To Walk With Honda’s Cyborg Legs

Few geeks haven’t dreamt of one day taking on cyborg enhancements—me included. And today I did, thanks to two of Honda’s wearable Asimo-inspired Walk Assist devices. This is how it felt.


April 10, 2009

Mass Production Planned For HAL Exoskeleton; Your Personal Iron Man Conversion To Cost $4,200

Products like the Human Assistive Limb exoskeleton have a frustrating tendency to remain in the labs and universities that spawned them, usually for reasons of impracticality or cost. But this one is going mainstream.


March 25, 2009

Just One of the Guys!

A T-600 Terminator poses in this fantastic buddy shot, alongside T4 director McG and Professor/HAL exoskeleton creator Yoshiyuki Sankai. No remains were found. [Impress]


January 13, 2009

Japanese Farmers Get a Boost From Robot Exoskeleton Suit

There’s not much the Japanese love more than robots, so twas only a matter of time before exoskeleton suits found some useful purpose. This particular suit assists farmers on tough agricultural work.


October 8, 2008

HAL Robot Exoskeletons Available for Rent

The day for you to strap yourself into a robotic exoskeleton and fight crime the way your normally flabby limbs would never have let you has come! Cyberdyne, the Japanese company responsible for the HAL (hybrid assistive limb) prototype robot suit, is starting rentals this week. The price for being superhuman: about $US2,200.


September 19, 2008

PISCES Exoskeletons Turn Every Solider Into Aquaman

Apparently the military has been working with West Florida’s Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) for several years trying to develop an underwater exoskeleton that would improve a soldier’s speed and endurance underwater. Much like early pioneers of flight, IHMC has looked to nature to provide answers. So far, the project known as Performance Improving Self Contained Exoskeleton for Swimming (“PISCES”) has investigated how dolphins, sea turtles and penguins move through the water. Not surprisingly, the results have been…a little odd.