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In Japan, created a robotic suit, thanks to which people with disabilities and older people will be able to live healthy and full life. The other day the invention received a certificate international security. The suit is briefly referred to as HAL or Hybrid Assistive Limb (translated into Russian as “hybrid auxiliary limbs “). Over its creation is not the first The Japanese company Cyberdyne has been working for a year. HAL is battery powered robotic suit. He is reacting muscle contractions of the person he is wearing. Wherein exoskeleton not only helps a person move, he increases muscle strength of its “pilot”. Manufacturing company Cyberdyne with In 2010, she rented such costumes to local hospitals and charities at $ 1950 apiece per year.
Now that the company has received an international certificate safety, the popularity of the suit will only increase, believes Discovery “It is very important for us that it is Japanese engineers received this certificate before anyone else, says Yoshiyuki Sankai (Yoshiyuki Sankai), CEO of Cyberdyne. – Japan is great country of robots. We are honored to let the world look into the future with our inventions, “says Sankai, who is also a professor at the University of Tsukuba. IN Japanese hospitals and nursing homes hal already managed to become very popular. Now the inventors hope that the exoskeleton will find new owners around the world. Note that a separate model HAL was invented specifically for people who perform dismantling work in Fukushima. The costume was designed to protect them from radiation after the disaster in March 2011.
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