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H.A.L.

WHAT IS H.A.L. ? H.A.L. is the brain child of Dr. Sankai of the Tsukubuka University in Japan, and the robotics company Cyberdine. H.A.L. is a type of powered exoskeleton that has two applications.H.A.L. has just a leg application to assist in activities such as physical therapy.H.A.L. has a full bodied suit to aid in extreme lifting and reducing fatigue on the body.

H.A.L WAS DESIGNED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF TAKING SOME OF THE STRAIN OFF OF PEOPLE WORKING OR LIVING IN THESE

TYPES OF ENVIRONMENTS.

HospitalsRehabilitation CentersHospital lifting staffPeople who have been confined to a wheelchair all of their lives. Factories

H.A.L. AIDING IN TWO DIFFERENT SCENARIOS.

HOW DOES H.A.L. WORK ? • H.A.L. works through a series

of two F.R.F. sensors placed right above the kneecap on the leg, which responds directly with your brain’s processing features.

• Basically when your brain tells one of your limbs to move, the sensors pick up on the impulse within a fraction of a second and the suit takes over.

In 2012 Cyberdine released a new type of H.A.L. suit to the industrial

worker.

The new 132 pound suit which is virtuously weightless to the wearer

because of the suit’s ability to support itself, is now helping protect

the clean up workers at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, and

increases the productivity of the wearer.

This suit is equipped with Tungsten and five fans to

help keep the wearer cool.

H.A.L. is powered by a(n) AC100V type battery pictured below.

This battery is 210g which is roughly 0.0462 pounds.

H.A.L IN ACTION

H.A.L. will eventually be a massed

produced item, and will be available for not as much as you

would expect.

The base price for H.A.L will be around $ 4,00

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H.A.L. is not the only type of exoskeleton suit on the market.

The Military division are fast producing these exo-suits in order to benefit their soldiers.

A prime example of this would be a new suit under the development of Lockheed-Martin, called “HULC”

The Lockheed-Martin’s “HULC” is a much more flexible unit compared to the “HAL” unit.

The “HULC” unit weighs 150 pounds but actually makes up for the weight by

supporting itself.

In 2006 Seiji Uchida who has been paralyzed for nearly two decades piggybacked with his friend with the assistance of the H.A.L. leg units, up the side of the Swiss Peak only to turn back 500 feet from the base so they would not miss the last cable car down the mountain.

In March,2011 Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Power plant lost 3 of it’s 6 Nuclear reactors to a tsunami and

earthquake causing the 3 reactors to spew Nuclear waste over the town .

This disaster caused 150,000 people to evacuate their homes, and some are still

not able to return still until this day.

CYBERDYNE Inc. is a venture firm aiming to utilize accomplishments by

Prof. Sankai and his laboratory at University of Tsukuba.

“We strongly believe that technologies should be designed for the benefits of human kind.” -Cyberdyne

H.A.L. is the future to better human assisted living, and is currently only available to the people of Japan, but one day it may be massed produced to the world. Even though it is not possible to completely take human equation out of robotics, it is possible to better humankind through the fusion of robotics and human abilities.

Review

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