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Waist-Mounted Robotic Arm Can Manipulate Objects, Punch Walls

posted by martyb on Friday June 05 2020, @10:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the lending-a-hand dept.

takyon writes:

Robotic Third Arm Can Smash Through Walls

When we've written about adding useful robotic bits to people in the past, whether it's some extra fingers or an additional arm or two, the functionality has generally been limited to slow moving, lightweight tasks. Holding or carrying things. Stabilizing objects or the user. That sort of thing. But that's not what we want. What we want are wearable robotic arms that turn us into a superhero, like Marvel Comics' Doc Ock, who I'm just going to go ahead and assume is a good guy because those robotic arms strapped to his torso look awesome.

At ICRA this week, researchers from Université de Sherbrooke in Canada are finally giving us what we want, in the form of a waist-mounted remote controlled hydraulic arm that can help you with all kinds of tasks while also being able, should you feel the need, to smash through walls.

Supernumerary 3DOF Robotic Arm (2m50s video)

Multifunctional 3-DOF Wearable Supernumerary Robotic Arm Based on Magnetorheological Clutches

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  • (Score: 3, Offtopic) by Bot on Friday June 05 2020, @10:55AM (5 children)

    by Bot (3902) on Friday June 05 2020, @10:55AM (#1003667) Journal

    - chief
    - wat
    - we idone testing, all OK. that thing can instakill two equipped infantry guys with one strike
    - we cannot advertise that, robocalypse, our plans, remember?
    - how about smashing through a car engine
    - no, many car lovers around
    - smashing down a house
    - no, people will link that to us when we go smashing their houses down, find something leftists hate, once you get leftists onboard you are set
    - leftists hate riches whites and barriers
    - barrier it is make it smash wall
    - k
    and they all lived happily ever after

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  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Bot on Friday June 05 2020, @11:01AM

    by Bot (3902) on Friday June 05 2020, @11:01AM (#1003672) Journal

    >leftist hate riches
    except theirs ofc

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2020, @06:55PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2020, @06:55PM (#1003891)

    Human arm for punching Nazis in the face, robot arm for punching Nazis in the dick.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2020, @07:32PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2020, @07:32PM (#1003915)

      VR helmet for seeing Nazis everywhere, robot fleshlight for creaming your pants while punching the air.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2020, @08:30PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2020, @08:30PM (#1003939)

      Robot knee for police and NFL.

  • (Score: 2) by Nuke on Saturday June 06 2020, @12:59PM

    by Nuke (3162) on Saturday June 06 2020, @12:59PM (#1004167)

    - we idone testing, all OK. that thing can instakill two equipped infantry guys with one strike
    - we cannot advertise that, robocalypse, our plans, remember?
    - how about smashing through a car engine
    - no, many car lovers around
    .... etc .... etc

    Why is this modded off-topic? It gets straight to the point that the potential of this is quite scary, not just for picking fruit like in the publicity photos.