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As the tech advances they will figure all this stuff out, All this heavy lifting etc is a long way off. If I had the answers I' be building it myself 
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Heavy lifting aside, th mdical applications for self lifting, you own body weight with the devices, to allow ms patinets, stroke victims to walk again would be benficial, but likely outside the cost range of the nhs.
Franly the govt should have a rs lab doing some such, making such device licence and sell abraod to fund the nhs arm and wing of said system.
Franly the govt should have a rs lab doing some such, making such device licence and sell abraod to fund the nhs arm and wing of said system.
Sorry who?...
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skynet is already here
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Jumping over the building is easy, compressing the fall damage to a point where every bone in your body doesn't shatter on impact, that's the difficult part
The REAL issue is - who will be the manufacturer / OS?!
If it's MS Windows - the exoskeletons will be nice and colourful. It is easy to access and it will start up no probs. Later on however, it will blow up without any warning whatsoever. You then have to revert to the old MS Dos version of the skelly.
If it's Mac - all the skellys look the same and act the same. When you consult the user manual, you are told that you don't need to know, don't want to know, and everything will be done by the skelly for you without you having to know. Of course, Mac skellys are not compatible with other manufacturers as it's a closed/gated community.
If it's Linux - you receive the skelly as a self-assembly kit. You need to get the soldering iron and various tools out to assemble it. Once assembled, you then need to write a source code, compile it then upload it to the skelly. By Raspberry pi ofc
Jumping over the building is easy, compressing the fall damage to a point where every bone in your body doesn't shatter on impact, that's the difficult part
Shirley, that's not right? The initial acceleration would be just as violent as the deceleration when stopping?
Ie, the acceleration needed to achieve (in a fraction of second) an initial velocity sufficient to get over the building would destroy your organs before you even got off the ground?
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nope actually, it's still on my 'list of films to see but could never be bothered to watch' list. mostly that came from me randomly thinking about these things. the likes of hawken/titanfall illustrate [badly] the kind of thing i'm talking about
cool as hell though
it's technically possible is what i mean, gimme some money, a warehouse, some machinery and some staff and i'll build one for ye*
*disclaimer, robot suit may melt down and cause nuclear fallout. Hamster enterprises inc is not responsible for the environmental impact of this effect nor for the effects of the following nuclear war. by reading, skimming over, or ignoring this print you accept liability for the apocalypse
The mechanics are difficult but tractable. The control system is difficult but tractable.
The limiting factor is power. Batteries are inadequate. Carrying a combustion engine around means heat/noise/weight but otherwise seems reasonable. Fuel cells essentially don't work.
We're probably waiting on viable fuel cells before exoskeletons are worthwhile.
The limiting factor is power. Batteries are inadequate. Carrying a combustion engine around means heat/noise/weight but otherwise seems reasonable. Fuel cells essentially don't work.
We're probably waiting on viable fuel cells before exoskeletons are worthwhile.
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cars are very easy to get out off
it's not like your strapped in.
for example it catches fire so hydraulics fail, how do you move your self to undo the straps/locks?
the thing is going to weigh a few hundred pounds it's self.
if it ere as trivial as you're making out we'd already have them working.
heck we had massive unexpected errors with robotic arms when they were first used and they ARE trivial compared to a mechanised suit, for example when they went into gimble lock, simple solution is flip the gimble 180 degrees.......what do you think happened when a massive robotic arm decided it needed to flip one of it's joints 180 degrees in a fraction of a second?
Thing is, you're trying to find a solution to a problem which we haven't got round to actually doing anything about yet.
Putting on a dreamer/innovative cap on, the system would have a quick release mechanism, which would allow you to get out of the suit in case of emergency. Or, if the centre of mavity become unbalanced and you started to fall, booster rockets would help right you. Or, hydraulic rams would fire out to put you back on your feet. Or, some magnetic field/force field would form around the suit for 10s or whatever to allow you to get to safety... etc.... The only limitations are what our current technology allows - but it doesn't stop things being fixed, improved or designed to mitigate things or to go beyond our current technology.
Whilst these exoskeletons are getting closer to practical use - they will be refined, improved, innovated further - you can't have all the solutions/safety straight away, sometimes innovation needs to be nurtured, or modified to work in our current sphere of reality. That's not to say it is impossible. You just have to go from absurdity and form it into reality - that's how the innovative process works.
Ultimately, in doing any forms of labour there will be risks, it's how you manage/mitigate the risks that count. Digging tunnels under London is hugely complex and dangerous, and there are real risks every second of every day - however, you plan and prepare for eventualities. You also have to accept that the work is dangerous.
This is what always confused me about Metal Gear, why build a giant battle mech to carry your tactical nukes when you can use, oh I dunno, planes? or even better a submarine!
In the words of Justin Hammer in Iron Man 2: I'd like to point out that that test pilot survived
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Shirley, that's not right? The initial acceleration would be just as violent as the deceleration when stopping?
Ie, the acceleration needed to achieve (in a fraction of second) an initial velocity sufficient to get over the building would destroy your organs before you even got off the ground?
I think he is called Redgie
although these are all things you have to solve before you can build/test them as you can't stick a person in a thing that can main/kill them without at least covering the basics.
at joints failing is a big one.