On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:07:05 -0700, Dan Coby wrote:

"PCPaul" wrote in message

The interesting thing about the HULC is that it's being aimed at
commercial sale. And that it will carry its own power source with it.

That Sarcos exoskeleton is great but look at the bundle of cables
hanging off the back...

The video claims that the final Sarcos product was be completely self
contained. We will see how things finally work out. (Was I the only
person that thought that the suit from the IronMan movie was totally
overshadowed by the little power source?)

As I said, my friend and I were very impressed by how naturally the
Sarcos unit operates. It makes the 'loader' from Aliens look 'clunky'.


Servos will do that for you. The Aliens one suffered from the general
movie thing of trying to look like you'd expect 'robot like things' to
look.

Same principle as the Stealth fighter being jet black. It's not the best
colour for the mission it had to fly, but the Generals with the purse
strings *expected* it to be black because it flew at night.

Many industrial robots use the same servo principle so that people can
'train' them to do new tasks. In learning mode a huge multi-ton robot
just sits quietly and you can push and twist it around as if it weighed
nothing. After the training it can do the same moves again with uncanny
human-like movements, even with huge loads on it or at multiplied speeds.
Spooky to watch.