Robotic Suit Gives Shipyard Workers Super Strength 125
An anonymous reader writes Ship-builders Daewoo have been testing robotic exoskeletons in South Korean shipyards that provide the wearer with super-human strength. From the article: "The exoskeleton fits anyone between 160 and 185 centimetres tall. Workers do not feel the weight of its 28-kilogram frame of carbon, aluminium alloy and steel, as the suit supports itself and is engineered to follow the wearer's movements. With a 3-hour battery life, the exoskeleton allows users to walk at a normal pace and, in its prototype form, it can lift objects with a mass of up to 30 kilograms."
Only geeks... (Score:5, Insightful)
would consider lifting 30Kg to be superhuman.
Re:Only geeks... (Score:5, Insightful)
Now go out and lift it once per minute for 3 hours and see how you feel.
Re:Only geeks... (Score:4, Insightful)
would consider lifting 30Kg to be superhuman.
And from TFA the target is 100kg Try lifting *that* more than a few times and see how you go.
I feel sorry for you that the amazing super-strength exoskeleton capable of lifting 1000 kg, and able to run all day didn't just spring into existence at the snap of your fingers. It really must be tough living in that fantasy world where research and development don't take time and resources.
Re: Only geeks... (Score:5, Insightful)
Prototype, people, it's a prototype.
I'm all for alien-crushing super-robot strength too, just not while the software is still in beta :^)
Re:Only geeks... (Score:2, Insightful)
You get to sweating a bit, and I doubt it's good for your back in the long run, but its certainly doable
(I used to work in a freight terminal - we would load 2 or 3 trucks with 20-30 Kg packages over a 2 hour period.. and none of us were 'buff' by any stretch of the imagination).
No SCV comments? (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm disappointed in the Slashdot of today. All of these comments, and not one person making wise about Koreans playing Starcraft and deciding to develop their own SCV's.