I just noticed on Interconnected that Matt Web has created a little utility to generate your own personal light cone as an RSS feed.
Science and Technology
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Dec 03
The Hardiman
Flipping through New Scientist again this week I came across a short piece describing the WL-16 robotic walking chair, which is apparently all the rage in robotics at the moment. You can read more about it here, but the WL-16 isn’t a particularly exciting robot in my book: the first version suffers from the “Dalek Problem” for pity’s sake!
I was more interested in the last paragraph of the piece:
The first robotic creation designed to carry a person was Hardiman, a super-strong weightlifting robotic exoskeleton developed in the US by General Electric in 1968. It was so powerful it was never turned on with a person in it, for fear of what it might do if it went wrong.
Tantalising wouldn’t you say?
