Power Loader, Makes You Superhuman
Tired of lifting heavy objects? Would you like to experience superpowers like Robocop? Then perhaps you are interested knowing the ActiveLink team development (Panasonic Satellite Company established in Japan’s city of Kyoto). They gave free rein through Power Loader design, an exoskeleton (mechanical suit that mimics human movement) as a mechanical arm, which enables you to acquire the strength of a superhero with less energy expenditure.
Power Loader which might return in international markets in 2015 (there is very little), consists of an aluminum structure with a weight no lighter than 230 kilos, which allows users to lift 100 kilos of weight without a penalty gesture showing a minimum of effort. And all thanks to its 18 electromagnetic motors, controlled in a smooth and delicate with a computer installed in their structure, which will help to banish the famous biblical curse that aimed to earn their bread by the sweat of the brow.
At first glance, this instrument reminds me on mechanical prosthetic arms (rather robotic suit) that used the character of Lt. Ripley in the sci-fi film Aliens (Part II). But beyond the movie pastiches, the Power Loader is designed clearly for those who in their professional lives need to lift large objects (waiters, warehouse construction workers …) or simply have their issues physically limited by age or motor disability.
And all this through a simple mechanism (at least at first glance and without going into great detail) based on a set of sensors that pick up and mimic the movements of the user at the same time helping to maintain this balance. The force made delicacy.
Saya, Japanese Robot Teacher.
In the land of the rising sun, a teacher like is like no other with students. Her name is Saya and this is the first “teacher-robot! It was tested in a primary school and won a great success. The “high tech” teacher called in the morning without making any mistakes. She knows several foreign languages, speaks and laughs like everyone else … in short, a no-fault! After this very successful first test, Japan has every intention of bringing this new generation of instit ‘in several primary schools in the country.
“It took fifteen years after Hiroshi Koyabashi, and his Tokyo Science University team develop the robot. In January 2009, the University had already submitted the “Saya secretary”, a robot sceretary who knows how to use 700 words. In 2005, Mr. Koyabashi Saya had proudly unveiled the receptionist. “I almost feel that it is a real person” he declared. “This is the time! even sometimes she’s still makes mistakes, especially when lack of energy “he said.
Saya, Robotics Teacher
The little Japanese Robomania seem exaggerated, but it addresses a real concern of the leaders of the archipelago. Faced with an aging population, and declining population, the government has recently invested a little more than 27 million euros in this sector. The hoped that all sorts of household robots entering Japanese homes by 2015. Another explanation put forward by the Japanese: the robots will replace the foreign labor needed to run the country in 10 years time … Robotics to prevent immigration? A typical Japanese …
