Clinical Trials Begin For Russia's First Medical Exoskeleton 26
pRobotika writes: Seven hundred people volunteered to try out the ExoAtlet when the Russian startup advertised its imminent clinical trials. Only a handful of these could be accommodated when testing of Russia's first medical exoskeleton began recently in a Moscow hospital. It's the latest step in the Skolkovo-backed innovation's battle to reach the market, and progress is looking phenomenal. The video features the coolest looking exoskeleton testers we've seen in a long time.
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The standard version comes with a SAM mount. IFF is an optional extra.
Unfortunately (Score:1)
You will be assimilated (Score:2)
Military version to follow shortly (Score:2)
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Because it'd be the least bullshitty thing to come out of Russia in recent years?
In Russia (Score:2)
oh....wait.... that's kinda what an exoskeleton does, isn't it.
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We've already had Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. It looks like the Bush Crime Family is already cranking up the pressure on Russia. Their attempt isn't working because >80% of Russians know the truth that they are not responsible for this:
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/more-than-80-of-russians-blame-ukrainian-army-for-malaysia-airlines-crash/504333.html
Unfortunately, USians are easier to fool, and one poll I read said a stunning 26% of people in the USA think Russia did it. That is very sad.
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Those moments when something is good enough to be a troll making fun of Russia and stupid enough to be a paid shill in a social media engineering farm.
Propaganda (Score:2)
Summary reads like thinly-veiled propaganda. This kind of thing is under serious research elsewhere. The fact that it's in Russia does not make it notable.
Russian bashing (Score:3)
It is a bit sad to see all that Russian bashing in the comments.
Whatever your beliefs are about the MH17 crash, this exoskeleton project is not related to it. Nobody bashes US startups because of US foreign policy...
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There are dozens of medical based exo-skeltons under development all over the west. Most are much better advanced than the pictures of this monstrosity (it's huge). The most famous of the western prototypes allowed a woman with below the neck paralysis (no arm or leg control) to walk across a room unaided by any other human. Based on the pictures of this "Russian version" this is at best a crutches assistance, not a full assist in that it requires the user to use crutches.
Frankly this isn't even newsworthy.
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In soviet russia (Score:2)
Hmmm ... (Score:2)
Why am I suddenly picturing the scenes from Iron Man 2 where Tony Stark hijacks the Congressional hearing to show video of Justin Hammer's failed attempts to build his own version?
Why is this news? (Score:2)
Lots of these things have been on the market for ages... I mean... company in X country starts work on product that is already in the market and offers nothing new on the existing concept? ... Just saying.
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Surely you jest?
http://www.eksobionics.com/ [eksobionics.com]
That's one of the nicer ones... there are a lot of other ones by other companies.
The big tip off is that it is "Russia" making this... sorry if this sounds bigoted... but when was the last time they innovated anything? Here you're going to say Sputnik or something. Even if I accepted that... that was one example and decades ago.
HALF the patents in the last 100 years came out of the United States. Half.
So what am I saying? I'm saying that of course we have an exeske
So Putin straps himself into a suit (Score:2)
And calls himself Crimson Dynamo?
Anyone remember Exo-Man (1977)? (Score:2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]