Berkeley Bionics Human Exoskeleton
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 12:14 pm
I found this quite interesting...
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twisted testicles?avansc wrote:he just looks like fucking forrest gump. what a piece of shit.
berkley can suck my ramaining testicle.
I don't actually know how it works, but from what I've read about similar projects, it uses servos at the joints, and it detects your movements, so the exoskeleton moves with you. It's like having a pair of robotic legs that exactly follow your movements. So the weight on the backpack is held up by the robotic legs, the person just sort of moves along inside of it.MarauderIIC wrote:Hmm. How much does the skeleton weigh? How does it manage to "negate the payload", exactly, I wonder? Does it say, lift up on your feet when you lift (when it's not being pushed on)? If so, what does it push against in order to lift? It seems like the user might be the most available thing to push against. Although you could spring load it, you would have to allow for the springs to be stretched again without any effort, and so that wouldn't be any good.
Why didn't I see the guy with 150 pounds running? If it negates it, running with 50 pounds doesn't tell me much, maybe he was an army dude.
the army has a full exoskeleton suit in development, so you can walk with or lift heavy objects...wtetzner wrote:I don't actually know how it works, but from what I've read about similar projects, it uses servos at the joints, and it detects your movements, so the exoskeleton moves with you. It's like having a pair of robotic legs that exactly follow your movements. So the weight on the backpack is held up by the robotic legs, the person just sort of moves along inside of it.MarauderIIC wrote:Hmm. How much does the skeleton weigh? How does it manage to "negate the payload", exactly, I wonder? Does it say, lift up on your feet when you lift (when it's not being pushed on)? If so, what does it push against in order to lift? It seems like the user might be the most available thing to push against. Although you could spring load it, you would have to allow for the springs to be stretched again without any effort, and so that wouldn't be any good.
Why didn't I see the guy with 150 pounds running? If it negates it, running with 50 pounds doesn't tell me much, maybe he was an army dude.