Exoskeleton Expansion Pack Turns You Into Nearly 10-Foot-Tall ‘Superhuman’
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Have you, at any point in time, wished your actions were larger? Perhaps you’d like to organize some papers that have been sitting at the top of your cabinet without getting a ladder, or move some boxes around from a distance.
At the Haneda Smart City EXPO in 2021, engineers at a company called Skeletonics presented robotic “expansion gear” that turns its wearer into a 9.8-foot-tall being with limbs that magnify their movements.
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Rather than tapping into a power source, the exoskeleton suit relies on the user’s kinetic energy to move in tandem with their hands and fingers. This keeps its actions deft and its frame fairly light—weighing in at only 88 pounds.
As detailed by RobotStart, the expansion pack is optimized for a category of sports called “Superhuman sports,” where people compete using artificially simulated physical abilities that outperform those of humans. Even those of age or with disabilities can participate in Superhuman sports, it notes.
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Unlike various modes of artificial intelligence, the Skeletonics suit can’t carry heavy objects—but it can at least fling a baseball bat around with ease, or gracefully follow its human along in a routine of martial arts.
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To be frank, we’d be content to just make ours a glorified cupholder.
[via Laughing Squid, Technabob, TechEBlog, images via Skeletonics]
