Now this is COOL!

[Chip]

web page (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050607/lf_afp/afplifestylejapantechnologyrobotelderly_0506071414 15)


I want one!

[Worbah]

Looks nice.

[Mr No Name]

Now you'll see superhuman robbers and stuff like that too. Now they can just walk out with the safe instead of trying to break it open.

[shoboy]

It would be sooooo funny to see the "machine" go nuts while someone is wearing it. It's not designed to take over the human bodies movements, but if it went all ape**** and shorted out, imagine the look on the persons face as they cant help but do nothing as this thing takes over thier body. Smashing cars, breaking windows, picking up small people are hurling them into the street, running itself into walls thus smacking the poor helpless person on the bricks av_biggrin.gif

I'd pay big money to see that............... 2 elderly people wearing them, just casually walking down the street. BUt something goes wrong with the built in bluetooth/wifi, and the "robots" start fighting each other, all the while the 2 old people are stunned, not knowing what's going on.......priceless............

[ColdFace]

I know the U.S. military has been working on something very similar to this design for some time now.

If I had a link I would post it but I think someone might have posted it here to begin with.

[Chip]

I was thinking about adding a jetpack and a chaingun. Maybe a rocket launcher or 2.

[GunJam]

Yeah
I remember reading about the US military working on something just like that too.

I wonder how well it really works? That chick is like 75 pounds.

I wanna see that guy lift a sumo wrestler.

Gun

[Worbah]

Originally posted by GunJam:
Yeah
I remember reading about the US military working on something just like that too.

I wonder how well it really works? That chick is like 75 pounds.

I wanna see that guy lift a sumo wrestler.

Gun true, I mean I could probably lift a girl like that (I've tried, they just keep screaming so hard) with one hand. It's not such a great feat of strength. Now, a car is different.

[Alaric]

Wasn't it called "LandWarrior"?

[shoboy]

Originally posted by Alaric:
Wasn't it called "LandWarrior"? I know the "official" LandWarrior namesake is for the tech and guns of the Army.

But the suit that has hydrolic controls to help out, not sure if that was landwarrior also.

This new suit weights less than the military version, but cant do as much weight either.

[MarkN]

I just wonder when they'll come up with one version that's a power lifter that could go up against a gigantic insect-like alien mother, and/or when they'll come up with a fighter version that sports twin 1,000-round machine guns that could be used against flying squid-like robots? graemlins/av_cheesygrin.gif