Cyberdyne Unveils Improved Robotsuit HAL

[Guest]

Japan-based Cyberdyne unveiled a new, radiation-protected version of its exoskeleton HAL, which is designed to be used for workers at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

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[dudemcduderson]

"Radioactive radiation" I did know there was any other kind!

 

[cscott_it]

Not to pick at you Wolfgang, but radioactive radiation made me a chuckle a bit.
(You could have said dangerous or lethal instead, as I know that there are several forms of radiation, Cellular signal for example is carried on one such type).

Good humored jostle aside, interesting read. Going to have to do some research into this whole business.

Edited for clarification and to fix typo with Wolfgang

 

[A Bad Day]

I though lead and hydrogen were the best protective agents against radiation?

(There's a type of radiation that is commonly found in in the outer space and easily stopped by hydrogen, though lead would only amplify it)

 

[jkflipflop98]

I wonder how they power this badboy. Having to be tethered to a power cable would kind of destroy the whole mobility thing. . . and there's no batteries with enough capacity to keep this thing lifting heavy objects for hours on end while still being small enough to be mounted to the suit.

T-51b's got around this problem by way of Microfusion cells. Too bad we don't have those.

 

[amuffin]

When I think Cyberdyne, I think Terminator.

Should we be scared? :O

 

[freggo]

[citation][nom]dudemcduderson[/nom]"Radioactive radiation" I did know there was any other kind![/citation]

Thermal radiation...

 

[borisof007]

HEV suit anyone?

 

[thefizzle656]

[citation][nom]amuffin[/nom]When I think Cyberdyne, I think Terminator. Should we be scared?[/citation]

Judgement day is upon us!!!!!

 

[ltdementhial]

i dont know how to post pictures but as many of you:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_J26m2shvCA/TVocAhWbS1I/AAAAAAAAAFU/j7Oox0i6q1U/s1600/Cyberdyne_systems234154.jpg

 

[A Bad Day]

[citation][nom]amuffin[/nom]When I think Cyberdyne, I think Terminator. Should we be scared?[/citation]

We wouldn't have the funding or the technology for Skynet in the first place. NASA gets about an annual $19 billion budget, US military spends about $20 billion on air conditioning (Afghanistan, etc) annually.

We're a welfare-warfare country.

 

[Kami3k]

[citation][nom]dudemcduderson[/nom]"Radioactive radiation" I did know there was any other kind![/citation]

Oh look, someone trying to be witty but actually only ending up looking like an idiot!

 

[nukemaster]

[citation][nom]borisof007[/nom]HEV suit anyone?[/citation]
I will take one with a matching crowbar.

 

[adgjlsfhk]

I'd think ventilation would kind of screw up the radiation protection part

 

[Hspito]

[citation][nom]dudemcduderson[/nom]"Radioactive radiation" I did know there was any other kind![/citation]

There is......... i.e. a radio station broadcasting it's consider Radio Frequency Radiation.

 

[mcd023]

[citation][nom]jkflipflop98[/nom]I wonder how they power this badboy. Having to be tethered to a power cable would kind of destroy the whole mobility thing. . . and there's no batteries with enough capacity to keep this thing lifting heavy objects for hours on end while still being small enough to be mounted to the suit. T-51b's got around this problem by way of Microfusion cells. Too bad we don't have those.[/citation]
it worked semi fine in evangelion. its all good

 

[willard]

I think the author probably meant to say ionizing radiation, not radioactive radiation. Now can we all move on please?

 

[Gundam288]

[citation][nom]A Bad Day[/nom]We wouldn't have the funding or the technology for Skynet in the first place. NASA gets about an annual $19 billion budget, US military spends about $20 billion on air conditioning (Afghanistan, etc) annually.We're a welfare-warfare country.[/citation]

And what about DARPA? They spend a lot as well. (not saying that it isn't worth it, but it's a big budget.)

They might be able to fit Skynet into their budget. Soon as we have the technology to do so that is. =P

http://www.darpa.mil/newsevents/budget.aspx

 

[ttcboy]

Hope that the experiment doesn't go wrong like the prototype iron man suit made by Hammer in Iron Man 2. That scene is always on my mind 😀

 

[nameon]

DUDES!! Seriously that NAME, IN JAPAN!!!!, thats a bad combination!!!

 

[_Cosmin_]

Technicaly there is only one type of radiation: Electro-Magnetic one, which is divided by wavelenght with various names (infrared radiation, gamma radiation, radio frequency radiation, microwave radiation, etc)

 

[ehanger]

I didn't know radiation could emit its own radiation...dayum

 

[ojas]

[citation][nom]dudemcduderson[/nom]"Radioactive radiation" I did know there was any other kind![/citation]
[citation][nom]freggo[/nom]Thermal radiation...[/citation]
hell even visible light is radiation...

 

[jee_are]

[citation][nom]_Cosmin_[/nom]Technicaly there is only one type of radiation: Electro-Magnetic one, which is divided by wavelenght with various names (infrared radiation, gamma radiation, radio frequency radiation, microwave radiation, etc)[/citation]

How about Beta, Alpha and Neutron radiation? All particles.

 

[Parrdacc]

Cyberdyne!! this is just one more step till the machines take over! Our grand kids, grand kids will be fighting the terminators! The end of the world! The movies just got the years wrong! We're all doomed! AAAAHHHAHHHAHHAHH!