Friday, April 08, 2005

Cool: Bionic Suit Offers Wearers Super-Strength

This is quite cool, it's an exo-skeleton which will help it's wearer walk or lift heavy objects. This is a 10 year project by Yoshiyuki Sankai of the University of Tsukuba in Japan.



I had seen other similar bionics but they where bigger than this one. The image is of HAL 3 (hybrid assistive limb) but HAL 4 and HAL 5 have even smaller computers and batteries, making them even slimmer!

You can read the rest of the article at New Scientist Technology