Japanese Exoskeleton Update: Does Team Skeletonics have new gear? (VIDEO)

Oct 282013
 
Japanese Exoskeleton Update: Does Team Skeletonics have new gear? (VIDEO)

We’ve been in love with Team Skeletonics’ human-powered exoskeleton for years, and all throughout, it’s pretty much been the same mechanical and aesthetic configuration. But it now looks like they’ve been refining in the background, and might be bringing something new out to play.

 October 28, 2013  Posted by at 12:43 PM Activelink Power Loader, AkihabaraNews.com, Asia, Bionic, Cybernetics, Exoskeleton, HAL Suit, Human Augmentation, Japan 日本 Tekk, Japanese Robots, Japan「日本」, Prosthetics, Robot, Technology, Technology & Disability, Technology & Healthcare, Transhumanism, We're Already Cyborgs Already

An Upside to Fukushima: Japan’s Robot Renaissance

Mar 152013
 
An Upside to Fukushima: Japan’s Robot Renaissance

This piece is not a memorial, but hopefully a brief insight into how a terrible natural disaster has invigorated Japan’s robotics industry and brought to light a problem affecting all industrialized societies.

 March 15, 2013  Posted by at 9:52 PM Activelink Power Loader, Asia, CareBots, Cyberdyne, DARPA, DARPA Robotics Challenge, Energy Technology, Exoskeleton, HAL Suit, Industrial Robots, Japan 日本 Tekk, Japan「日本」, Nuclear Stuff, Robot, Technology, Technology & Environmentalism

Activelink Power Loader Gives HAL Some Competition, but Who’s Going to Fukushima?

Jan 172013
 
Activelink Power Loader Gives HAL Some Competition, but Who's Going to Fukushima?

Japan’s got the best robot exoskeletons, and the best among them is Cyberdyne’s HAL. But there’s a new Power Loader in town, and HAL better stay on it’s game – which is also presented here as a wildly generalizing analogy for Japan’s floppy electronics industry.

 January 17, 2013  Posted by at 9:34 PM Activelink Power Loader, Bionic, Cybernetics, Exoskeleton, HAL Suit, Here First or Best Here, Human Augmentation, Inc., Japan 日本 Tekk, Japan「日本」, Medical Robots, Medical Technology, Multimedia, Prosthetics, Robohub, Robot, Technology