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Robot Suit Aids Japanese Farmers

A video news report on a power-lifting robot suit developed by researchers at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology:

For more information about this suit, check out the very informative article Pink Tentacle posted earlier this week!

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5 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - January 11, 2008 at 4:14 pm

Categories: Technology Tags: agriculture, exoskeleton, gadget, gizmo, japan, japanese, robot suit, robotics, tech, Technology, tokyo

Ryry

Next step= Gundam…?

“Combine-Harvester-Laser-Attack!!”
jomega

Not understanding japanese I’m probably missimg something here, but if Wussboy there needs a POWERED ROBOT SUIT to lift TWENTY G__DAMN KILOS he needs to find a line of work other than farming.
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Okay after reading the Pink Tentacle, I understand that Wussboy is just a grad student. Still, it,s just two bags of rice. I imagine any japanese farmers seeing this would just laugh.

http://www.japanprobe.com James

Japan’s rural population is mostly elderly these days, so the aim of this project is to give old farmers super-powered robot arms to lift heavy objects.

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