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Your Cyborg Destiny Awaits

Posted On: 14 April 2008 By: Jay Oatway Filed Under: Future-Stuff-That-Goes-Ping | Robot Revolt

The guys over at Popular Science have taken an exoskeleton for a test drive:

While audiences flood theaters this month to see the comic-book-inspired Iron Man, a real-life mad genius toils in a secret mountain lab to make the mechanical superhuman more than just a fantasy with the XOS Exoskeleton…

It recognizes that Jameson wants to bring his hands down and calculates what each artificial muscle in each of the joints needs to do to make the suit mirror him. Jameson never feels strain because the system instructs the robotic arms to grab the weight before he exerts any significant force. When he steps out of the XOS after a round on the weight machine, he’s not even out of breath. I ask him how he feels. “Fine,” he says, shrugging.

And if that wasn’t enough mind-blowing robotics to make you pop a cog, then check out how Segway is freaking people out with its Robotic Mobility Platform [via Communist Robot]

And Ray Kurzweil’s interview with the BBC is making rounds in the blogosphere again — reminding us that very soon we shall all merge with the machines:

The future is in the can.

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