Festo's fluidic muscles make us all look weak
By Darren Murph 
posted Aug 24th 2007 10:29AM
posted Aug 24th 2007 10:29AM
[Via DesignNews]
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posted Aug 24th 2007 10:29AM
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Looks like one of the bots out of "I, Robot"...
Very cool. I look forward to the possibility of getting my own if I ever lose a limb.
And now, to handle the old standby jokes...
1) I will become your evil BIONIC overlord. I, for one, will welcome myself.
2) It had better not blend, even in a BlendTec Total Blender.
3) I can already play DOOM.
4) I am not in Russia, much less Soviet Russia, so that one is a moot point.
I for one welcome our non-blendable, DOOM playing, non Russian bionic overlord.
Thats probrably the coolest thing i've ever seen... I wonder if it'll be soon possible to connect a robotic arm to human nerves?
dude that has been done ages ago!
it is directly wired to your nerves and you move it like it was your own.
Current bionic arms dont require half a torso filled with pistons and pumps. Good luck fitting all that in.
Wait...where was Will Smith?!
my god.... what they dont tell ya is each of those weights its lifting, are a ton each...:jk:
These look identical to the shadow air muscles that have been around for quite some time now.
http://www.shadowrobot.com/airmuscles/overview.shtml
Meeh. I think I'd rather have Doctor Octupus' mechanical appendages instead.
This sounds pretty similar to how they control mech's in mechwarrior, for anyone who ever got into that. Using synthetic fibers that respond to electrical impulses rather than doing everything with servo's and motors. Very cool.
Pretty cool, although I would be concerned about needing to have half my internal organs scooped out to make for all the compressors for my new super-strenth bionic arm.
I might be able to do battle with the robotic overlord's minions, but I wouldn't be able to run far missing a lung.
Robocop anyone?
Baaa, so they can build a cool arm, but their website can't take the heat, apparently *snore*
Looks nice though. Also looks as though you'd have to sacrifice half your ribcage for it at this point...
Hmm.. Remember in Terminator 2 it all started with the arm... It's just the beginning of the end my friends, were screwed!
Did you mean "we're screwed?"
The dude who played the dude responsible for SkyNet is actually in a PSA on SciFi reminding to us take all precautions and follow all safety guidelines when building a robot, android, cyborg, etc....
I have mentioned this once before and a few of you have seen it, I am sure.
This looks pretty awesome! I hope this company is really successful with research on this to the point where it would become a viable solution to replacement of lost limbs.. What I have seen so far looks clunky. This looks and sounds pheasable.
These are identical to those robots in the movie i Robot
http://img.timeinc.net/popsci/images/science/sci0804irobot_A.jpg
Heilo? i hope that robo-arm isn't trying to tell us something!
Now tht was the creepiest thing i have erver seen, and what a choci eof music lol.
This is well wicked. A nice alternative to some of the less-human bionic arms. I bet it is loud still.