Modular Prosthetic Limbs - Get Sarif Industries on this - General

[video=youtube;9NOncx2jU0Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NOncx2jU0Q[/video] Basically just really fucking cool.

I wonder how long it takes before they can make one of these with simultaneous joint control.

That thumbnail [img]http://puu.sh/dzQ03/0c6cfbb7b5.jpg[/img] [I]"The fuck am I doing ?"[/I]

[QUOTE=Worre;46742287]I wonder how long it takes before they can make one of these with simultaneous joint control.[/QUOTE] Probably would require direct implants of some sort to get that kind of data

This is exciting and cool.

The Deus Ex FB page had posted this video last night. They always post prosthetic videos and news.

Hopefully they can make fake skin on it so it looks a bit less robotic.

First that new london subway, and now this. It's like the world is moving towards Deus Ex

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;46742300]That thumbnail [img]http://puu.sh/dzQ03/0c6cfbb7b5.jpg[/img] [I]"The fuck am I doing ?"[/I][/QUOTE] More like "Oh god I have arms again. I am a terminator."

An excellent step forward. Still a ways to go, but it's getting there.

At 2:42 a [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=931NgIKiG6Y#t=194"]certain scene with a certain song[/URL] started playing in my head.

5 to 10 years? DAMNIT I'M NOT GOING TO BUILD THESE AM I. Seriously, I want to build this stuff, but I've just started in the engineering industry and I'm at least 20 years away from being good enough for this work. Maybe I should devote my spare time to developing them.

[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;46742609]Hopefully they can make fake skin on it so it looks a bit less robotic.[/QUOTE] i on the other hand hope that they can make it chrome and add retractable blades and flamethrowers

Amazing what tech can bring, although it is far from being real arms and the finer movements of things.

[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;46742609]Hopefully they can make fake skin on it so it looks a bit less robotic.[/QUOTE] Make it look like muscles with an overlay of carbon fiber weave, fucking bad ass arm.

I think the mechanics side of things is pretty much there now. The last piece of the puzzle is inventing a good neural interface and then they can take my arms and legs for them.

[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;46742609]Hopefully they can make fake skin on it so it looks a bit less robotic.[/QUOTE] They already have fake, real LOOKing, everything, all we need to do is make it work.

[QUOTE=QwertySecond;46742891]5 to 10 years? DAMNIT I'M NOT GOING TO BUILD THESE AM I. Seriously, I want to build this stuff, but I've just started in the engineering industry and I'm at least 20 years away from being good enough for this work. Maybe I should devote my spare time to developing them.[/QUOTE] No reason to give up hope. 5-10 years for a major advancement to make these more viable, sure, but for all you know, you could be the one to make the quantum leap for proper, commercially available robo-limbs.

What I want to know is if the brain can ever rewire itself to make the motion more quick and fluid, or if this line of technology can only be controlled through laborious explicit thought

Prosthetics are something that absolutely astonish me if I ever got into hardcore engineering or science that would definitively be what I'd get into. It's something that can completely change someones life forever. the idea of a robotic + prosthetic leg or arm that can handle daily life, even hard work, would be pretty crazy.

[QUOTE=JohnFisher89;46742362] [QUOTE=Worre;46742287]I wonder how long it takes before they can make one of these with simultaneous joint control.[/QUOTE]Probably would require direct implants of some sort to get that kind of data[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u8KkvZvVVI[/media] Even if that's not true simultaneous joint control, it's still pretty damn agile for a prosthetic arm.

I wonder if he has to eat a candy bar every time he does something with those arms. (that's a deus ex HR joke for the ones who don't get it but really, this is fucking amazing!)

[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;46742609]Hopefully they can make fake skin on it so it looks a bit less robotic.[/QUOTE] Prosthetic hands trying to look like normal hands just en up looking really uncanny. I'd rather they make it just visually appealing. (Although the hand part looks really bad-ass already)

[QUOTE=QwertySecond;46742891]5 to 10 years? DAMNIT I'M NOT GOING TO BUILD THESE AM I. Seriously, I want to build this stuff, but I've just started in the engineering industry and I'm at least 20 years away from being good enough for this work. Maybe I should devote my spare time to developing them.[/QUOTE] If anything it's the perfect time to be starting out if you want to work in this kind of industry. Obviously given that you spend the next 5-10 years working for places where the skills you learn will carry over. Any type of robotics or electrical control systems experience will be useful if prosthetics is what you want to do. Also you could do what you said and do related things as a hobby. You don't need 20 years of experience to get pretty much any job, if you have passion for it you will make it. Again like I mentioned before, the mechanical pieces of prosthetics like that are the easy part compared to how challenging control systems are.

I wonder if hooking people up directly to heavier machinery (say, a robot arm at a factory or an excavator, maybe even the Davinci surgery device) using this tech would be useful. Like, it made them quicker or less prone to failure. [QUOTE=QwertySecond;46742891]5 to 10 years? DAMNIT I'M NOT GOING TO BUILD THESE AM I. Seriously, I want to build this stuff, but I've just started in the engineering industry and I'm at least 20 years away from being good enough for this work. Maybe I should devote my spare time to developing them.[/QUOTE] 5-10 years is a rough estimate, and even though you might not be in the team that made these possible, you could be on the one that figures out how to make these faster, quieter, cheaper, or more rugged. Or make them more natural to control. It's a booming field, if anything you should be proud you're studying to be part of it.

[QUOTE=portalcrazy;46743430]I wonder if he has to eat a candy bar every time he does something with those arms.[/QUOTE] Only after punching through walls.

Gonna be awesome when they develop this tech so far that you could use it exactly the same way you could use a normal arm.

[QUOTE=Lapsus;46743426]Even if that's not true simultaneous joint control, it's still pretty damn agile for a prosthetic arm.[/QUOTE] DARPA makes the sickest future shit

This is absolutely amazing. Think of it-- just years ago lost limbs would be gone forever, with all functional benefits along with it. Now this guy was just given the opportunity to 'have arms' again. This field has a bright future ahead.

HEADLINE: Local man's testicals explode after freak masturbation accident In all seriousness, this is cool shit. Hope they can get past the whole "one action at a time" thing