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meatwad
08-07-2006, 04:44 PM
http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/5852262

Matsumoto carried Uchida with the help of a kind of wearable robot known as HAL, or "Hybrid Assistive Limb," which gave him extra strength.

Uchida's attempts on Saturday and Sunday were called off because of bad weather.

HAL was developed by Tsukuba University engineering professor Yoshiyuki Sankai, who created it to help an operator perform tasks a normal human would not be strong enough for, according to the Web page of Sankai's venture company Cyberdyne.

Anyone else see a potential problem here?
bleepbloop
08-07-2006, 04:52 PM
that's a little robocop-y; I didn't really read the whole article though.
cheshrcarol
08-07-2006, 05:02 PM
Anyone else see a potential problem here?LOL! Just remember there's no fate but what we make ;).
dengeist
08-07-2006, 05:10 PM
We can rebuild him...
Make him stronger....
Faster....

*cue cheesy 70's music*

*picture of a japanese guy running at top speed on a treadmill*

*cue cheesy 70's sound effect*
embrassezla
08-07-2006, 05:32 PM
what are you doing, kyle.
Trillian42
08-07-2006, 05:55 PM
Daaisyy, Daaaaiiisssyyyy...
Benwa
08-07-2006, 06:04 PM
Their next project is to figure a way to power these machines using the bio-energy of a new born baby floating in pink goo. Sponsored by an anonymous donor, only known as Agent Smith.

His dream is to one day make a quirky robot that comes to life. "Johnny 5" will say cute things, have feelings and run around with that dude from Police Academy. The benefits of the project aren't to further technology for all humanity, but to give 'Officer Mahoney' someone to talk to and to ensure he makes no more movies.

The inventors breakthrough invention was Konky from Pee-Wee's Playhouse.
old_school_soul
08-07-2006, 07:00 PM
Wasn't Cyberdyne the company that created The Terminator?
cheshrcarol
08-07-2006, 07:32 PM
Wasn't Cyberdyne the company that created The Terminator?Yes. I don't think everyone else got the joke.
SunDevil
08-07-2006, 07:39 PM
Yeah, but the Air Force took over and completed skynet a few years after Cyberdyne's offices were destroyed.

I should be looking out for Sarah Conner to come back in time to take me out for writing computer programs that are fail-safe and autonomous(no human interaction)...
drdeadringer
08-08-2006, 07:38 AM
And there I was, someone named 'Miles', working with someone named 'Jon Connor'.

How I soooo wanted to ask him if he'd be back every time he left the lab in the Terminator voice, just to wig him out.
Trillian42
08-08-2006, 10:21 AM
Yes. I don't think everyone else got the joke.

I missed the Terminator reference. I was going off the fact that they called it HAL - the computer from 2001 Space Oddessy that has a mental breakdown.

Thus the "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do" reference, and someone else saying "What are you doing, Kyle?"