AI and 3 nines in the headline setting off my bullshit meter.
I’ve no relationship with the company! In fairness, it does seem to work. I posted it as it seemed quite cool.
My initial interest in technology like this will be its medical applications, helping frail people for example. If the technology has become good enough for recreational use then I’m sure medical versions won’t be too far behind.
Yeah they mention it can reduce stress on joints, for people with arthritis and other conditions this could be a lot more than a hiking toy.
I’ve got elderly relatives and just watching them slowly, carefully trying to walk around their houses makes me so nervous. Assuming medical technology hasn’t figured out how to take the edge off of age-related frailty directly, I would very much like to have something like this for protection and support were I to get into that sort of state.
Just as long as they don’t have knee issues. Look at it, it only augments the hips
Something like it. I’ve seen other exoskeleton prototypes that were full body, intended to let operators lift heavy objects with them. A medical version would just have to be able to handle regular loads.
Whoever wrote this copy should be fired. Like, holy shit, “push your limits, not your body”? Your body is the limit you are pushing with exercise!!!
Exercise is good for you because it is hard. You are prone to injury when you have not exercised enough previously, because your body never adapted to doing hard things. This is like advertising that you invented a robot to go to the gym and do deadlifts for you, lol.
Obviously there is an application here for the old and frail, and I support grandma being able to go out and hike with her grandkids. But then market it to grandma, not healthy athletic people looking to push their limits.
How easy it to take a quick shit with this contraption on? That’s how I measure practicality of gadgets used in the woods. Will it hinder or not an outdoors deuce?
You type very well despite the ursine claws.
Lol
That’s a good metric.
I note that you have wisely refrained from asking if a device will make it easier. I do not want any such device at this time, thank you.
Yeah I’m not strapping a sketchy AI to my skeleton or relying on it to get me around in the wilderness.
I had heard about the research showing you can make walking more efficient this way (even with passive springs). Nice to see it’s reached commercialisation.
You can rent this in China for like $40 a day
