Amped Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 Man, how much longer 'til we start seein' more advanced workable versions!!! ...like the Powerloader in Aliens... or Shirow's Landmates... Bubblegum Crisis' Hardsuits... Starship Troopers-like Power Armor.... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...obot_technology Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight26 Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 Nice, but those motors are way too big, give me muscle fibers any day, and yes they are a real technology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abombz!! Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 Looks too clunky if you ask me. <_ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EXO Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 I want one if it can make pop, 80's style!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArchVile Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 I can see how it would be really good for disabled people (its intent.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UN Spacy Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 I want one if it can make pop, 80's style!!! .....and how would that look? I agree with Archville, but would there be a large enough audience for a product like this? Let's also take into account that this is probably a prototype. How many years before we see an actual patent and production lines? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocco_77 Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 That is pretty cool, but I do agree that the "muscle fiber" research going on would really be a better way to enhance human performance without the "klunkiness" of motors and such. Plus, how tight around your legs would you have to attach that stuff in order for it not to slide around on you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent ONE Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 When is the upgrade available that makes it fly through buildings and fire rockets!? I will wait for that version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GobotFool Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 Looks too clunky if you ask me. Well its not a toy, its not meant to look good, its meant to help people who can't walk walk. While certainly in a primative stage this is a move in the right direction. Its good to see the power suit a reality and not a dream any more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsu legato Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 I want my landmate, dammit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Posted August 26, 2003 Share Posted August 26, 2003 When is the upgrade available that makes it fly through buildings and fire rockets!? I will wait for that version. Don't forget 'till it transforms to to a motorcycle. Not going to carry the whole thing arround town, after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Jenius Posted August 26, 2003 Share Posted August 26, 2003 mmm... *dreams of a law enforcement or military model* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Jenius Posted August 26, 2003 Share Posted August 26, 2003 Looks too clunky if you ask me. then make a better one and make a million dollars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mechamaniac Posted August 26, 2003 Share Posted August 26, 2003 Japan was in the vanguard of robotic technology, developing industry robots in the post-war period of rapid economic expansion, and has recently enjoyed a boom in leisure-oriented robots and talking, walking humanoid robots, developed by major Japanese firms such as Sony and Honda Motor Every time I get to thinking that we will never see real mechs, I see something like this, and I realize that if anyone makes them first, it will be the Japanese. Why else would they develop such a wide range. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MicronianDevil Posted August 26, 2003 Share Posted August 26, 2003 Looks good. I think I'll wait for the Cyclone Armor though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amped Posted August 26, 2003 Author Share Posted August 26, 2003 mmm... *dreams of a law enforcement or military model* I love this quote: "If we are really good, and we are, the soldier of 2025 will be as effective as the tank of 1995." - LTG Paul Kern, Military Deputy Director, 1997 While not a Landmate... yet... it's a start!!! Gotta love DARPA (the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency ): makin' the military's dreams a reality!!! Check out their Exoskeletons for Human Performance Augmentation (EHPA) Program here: http://www.darpa.mil/dso/thrust/matdev/ehpa.htm This guy did a great job of collecting exoskeletal resources! Go here... http://theblog.hypermart.net/thurstonia/ex...skeletons.shtml ...& he even zipped his reference articles here... http://theblog.hypermart.net/thurstonia/bin/EHPA.zip WIRED magazine has a preatty cool article here (Quote: "Battlefield armor is making a comeback...DARPA expects the first trials by 2005, according to its site. If the trials are successful, it will be the first appearance of battlefield armor since the 17th century.")... Misc. Links: http://www.howstuffworks.com/exoskeleton.htm http://www.sciencenews.org/20010630/bob8.asp http://www.techtv.com/news/scitech/story/0...3371422,00.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superkuh Posted August 26, 2003 Share Posted August 26, 2003 Hello various assembled personages. I happen to be the guy that threw together the exoskeleton documentation/page that was linked to on this board. 'noticed in the referal logs and such. As for the Japanese prototype, it's limited by the actuator type and power supply; electric. The power density of a battery is only so much, no current battery technology can power a true exoskeleton 24 hours a day ouputing 100watts (which is the goal). In fact, the only technology out there right now that can approach these power levels use a 90% hydrogen peroxide fuel that decomposes on a catalytic mesh inside the actuator. This general technology (it can use hydrazine too, but that's toxic. Peroxide only decomposes to water and oxygen.) is refered to as a 'monopropellent actuator' device. Lower body devices have been successfully built, and full body are near completion. Muscle fiber research is no where near ready. It's certainly an exciting field of research. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoshi Posted August 26, 2003 Share Posted August 26, 2003 (edited) I hope they will do a mass production version. Of course this version will follow the canons of the genre: It'll turn the user into a nameless guy who may or may not explode for no reason. :-) -- Main Old Japanese Person "John Mukiko": Ah ah I'm the main character of the retirement castle, therefore I use a glamorous, shining version of the suit. Bandai will soon release a plamo version of my suit. :-) Anonymous Old Japanese Person: Is there a chance Bandai make a plamo version of my suit, too ? Main Old Japanese Person "John Mukiko": No way, you're to the retirement castle what the VF-1A is to Macross. Anonymous Old Japanese Person: Argh Captain they're coming... they're coming from every.... BOUM ! Random Fanboy: Wow I love this anonymous guy who die for no reason. Let's petition Bandai so they make a side-story about him ! EDIT: Seriously, this is awesome. I hope to see mechs under one form or another before I die. Edited August 26, 2003 by Yoshi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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