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Comments on Japan's Double-Armed Rescue Vehicle
It's handy to have a rescue vehicle with two arms; Ripley might be able to fight aliens with it, too. (Read
the complete story)
"Typo in the image caption: "Pipley's powerloader exoskeleton" :)"
( 1/26/2009 11:07:29 PM) |
"Thanks - fixed it."
(Bill Christensen 1/27/2009 4:09:19 AM) |
"The only thing that would make this perfect is if they added a waldo style control system for it. I think they would improve the operator speeds significantly."
(VirtualGathis 2/9/2009 12:10:52 PM) |
| "Exactly, VirtualGathis. Take a look at the controls for the Tmsuk T52 Enryu Support Dragon Hyper Rescue Robot.
The robot is guided by an operator who wears a telefactoring gauntlet; the robot arms mimic the actions of the human operator.
"
(Bill Christensen 2/9/2009 4:24:40 PM) |
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