GO GADGET GO!

seforin

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/05/dean-kamens-rob.html

I thought this was awesome I had to share.

Its really amazing to see robotics to this degree now. But now with stim cell research ban lifted, im wondering what we will see first in our life times, robotic limbs, or regrowth of lost limbs?

Either way im routing for inspector gadget

Mongrelman

Wow.

low odor

that's freaking cool

rolfness

very fucking cool

Talbot

That's cool.

The correct phrase is "GO GO GADGET!" :P
Don't fuck with my childhood obsessions... haha.

rooster

part of the themetune goes 'go, gadget. go!'
so he's right

Mark Dygert

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psnCd3aFLmc[/ame]
"Go Gadget Go, Go Gadget Go" 37sec in.
But I understand where the confusion comes, he would always say "go go gadget whatever" when he used stuff.

So in order to qualify for a highly expensive robot arm we first have to loose ours in some horrific way? Done and done.

ericdigital

That's amazing.

I'm confused though, about half way through he says, "this next guy is going to control it all by thinking."

What were the guys before him controlling it with?!

arrangemonk

thats exactly the field of work i intended to work in, pretty awesome
edit:
@ericdigital
first you have to make some sort of joystick for this thing that the user gets used to controll the arm
(in the case of the guy with both arms lost he is controlling the arm with footpanels)
and with electrodes in the brain you can measure the pattens that occur when controlling the arm, so after some time (this was also tested with monkeys) you can controll the arm only with thinking of moving the arm
its all a matter of training and pattern recognition
i dont know if the electrical waves in the brain are strong enough that you can measure it on the head, but if you put an imlantat in the head everything should work fine

ericdigital

Awesome! I just had watched the second video and seen they show him explaining how he controls it as well.

That is just insane!

rooster

vig wait! one of the dudes in the video has it strapped to his real arm, so you could have three arms..

whats that? too late?

Mark Dygert

tyou woiuld not berieve howe hardf it is to typr withj just ur noser.

almighty_gir

one step closer to skynet...

Ruz

actually seforin they can already regrow lost finger tips. Pretty damn cool
its called extra cellular matrix

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7354458.stm

seforin

ruz: yea I remember polyhertz sent me a link a while ago saying something in the lines of growing teeth/ eyes (things that require major nerves to reconnect)

Still wondering what we will see become the more popular choice first, regrowth of limbs or robotic limbs?

rolfness

Vig wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psnCd3aFLmc
"Go Gadget Go, Go Gadget Go" 37sec in.
But I understand where the confusion comes, he would always say "go go gadget whatever" when he used stuff.

So in order to qualify for a highly expensive robot arm we first have to loose ours in some horrific way? Done and done.

Im renting our rusty hacksaws at $10 an hour

notebookguy

Some beauty left here

Thegodzero

Now what i want to see is someone hooked up to a segway for his lost legs and two of those robotic arms.

Then i want to see that with out the person...

arrangemonk

http://www.cyberdyne.jp/English/robotsuithal/index.html

Illusions

While intrigued by the idea, I'm a bit unnerved by what might happen to any human strapping into a Cyberdyne HAL... :poly122:

Mark Dygert

Yea my hats off to the marketing team, if this is a Terminator Salvation marketing stunt...

Ruz

wonder if he has tried wanking with his new arm yet. I mean after 26 years thats gotta be a bit frustrating:)

seforin

ruz :Im sure if there people that can eat with there feet this man has learned a way to wank with his big toe