WEBVTT - I Am Iron Man 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:07.240 Brought to you by Toyota. Let's go places. Welcome to 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:15.400 Forward Thinking. Hey there everyone, and welcome to Forward Thinking. 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:19.320 The podcast that listened to Futuring, says Binary Solo zero 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.960 zero zero zero zero zero one. I'm Jonathan Strickland, I'm 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:28.320 Lauren Vocum, and I'm Joe McCormick. And uh, guys, um, 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:33.440 you're familiar with the great documentary Aliens. Oh yeah, how 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:36.639 have we not talked about exoskeletons yet? I know, I 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:39.880 know we had day is the day. Yeah, there's so 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:43.839 many examples in science fiction, and I mean I personally 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.160 love lots of them, like the Loader and Aliens. While 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:51.000 it's entirely just this huge functional thing that's meant to 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:55.680 allow a person to load heavy material, yeah onto a spacecraft. 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.040 I mean that's just a simple example, but it's still 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:01.240 really awesome. It's so great because in terms of the 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.080 construction of the narrative, it's one of the best sci 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:07.440 fi versions of Chekhov's gun Yes in movie history. When 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:11.160 Ripley uses it early on to you know, show up 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:14.320 the dudes who think that she can't do anything. She's 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:16.800 a girl. There should totally be a little a little 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:21.600 caption that flashes underneath that scene saying this is important. Yeah, 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:26.120 and then of course later, oh, that's just the power. 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:29.160 Don't don't say the line. Don't say the line, of course, 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:35.080 Uh yeah, power, so many exoskeleton. Everybody loves iron Man, 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:39.440 iron Man. Well, okay, until two thousand eight, a small 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.600 number of people loved iron Man, and now everyone loves 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.959 mostly Robert Downey Jr. Also, I guess iron Man. Yeah, well, 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.560 Robert Downey Jr. Lives his life as if he were 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:52.440 Iron Man, or at least Tony Stark. So but we've 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:57.080 got other examples. Uh see Master Chief's armor, the Spartan arm, 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:02.240 which is arguably a little bit like a cyborg because 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.040 I don't think that you could take that guy out 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:07.360 of that suit and have him live, right. It's it's 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.240 a combination, right, there's an exo skeleton element, and then 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.720 there's also the cyborg element of the or at least 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.960 the genetically modified slash cyborg element, because they do have 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:18.560 the AI that can go into their brains. Right, But 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:21.760 but it certainly does. That suit certainly gives him or her. 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:27.400 There are lady Spartans true superhuman abilities. Yeah, there's uh, 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:34.399 there's there's of course, Metroid Classic Samas, Samas Sammus. Well, 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.399 if you say Samus, who answers is going to yell 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:40.400 at you and say say Samas instead, I would I 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:42.959 would argue that many of these examples are also based 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.200 on some classic sci fi examples, like Starship Troopers, which 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:47.839 was in fact a book before it was a really 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:51.519 terrible film. I think you mean, terribly awesome film that's 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:54.880 not at all what the book I believe had. It 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.519 had exo skeletons that didn't show up in the movie, 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.280 right right, They didn't even show up in the movie. 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.359 Oh that's why I hated that movie. Cavatar had them. 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.880 Giant Mex, I mean, Max are essentially exo skeletons just 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.120 turned up to eleven. Yeah. Okay, so by grouping all 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:13.839 these things together we can sort of get an understanding 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:17.919 of what an exo skeleton is. It's a suit that 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:21.600 you put on over your body. It doesn't replace your body, 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:24.720 but it's sort of augments your body amplifies what you're 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.079 able to do in some way, which is exactly why 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.760 RoboCop is not an example of an exo skeleton. Okay, 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:33.919 we we had a quick discussion before the podcast went 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:36.560 live because apparently there was a correction that we needed 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:40.320 to address on something unrelated to this podcast. I wouldn't 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:42.960 call the discussion quick, but please go ahead. At any rate, 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:47.280 the discussion was specifically about and ask Someone made the 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.280 assertion that RoboCop in fact is wearing an exo skeleton. 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:54.280 That's clearly not the case. Someone was under the mistaken 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:58.680 assumption that RoboCop was wearing an exo skeleton. Uh, not 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.680 correct at all. RoboCop is a human head and I 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:05.080 think maybe part of a torso, but that's irrelevant with 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:10.160 a robot body cyborg. Yeah yeah, if he's pretty, it's 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:14.080 pretty Frankensteiny. Yeah. Yeah, So an exo skeleton would be 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:16.960 if RoboCop was a regular cop who was a dude 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.160 who would walk in in the morning, put the suit on, 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:21.000 and then go out and fight crime, that would be 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:24.760 an exo skeleton. Yes, so let's talk about some real 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:28.120 world exo skeletons, because here's the thing, this is just 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.800 science fiction, Joe, real world I'm talking about you can 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.159 go out and put some of these on right now. 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.599 Not only you could buy one, you could buy a 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:40.120 couple of these. Yeah, I mean, if you have grand 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.359 laying around. I got to hear this, all right. So 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:46.719 there are lots of different types of exo skeletons, which 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:50.520 I kind of arbitrarily divided up by the tasks they 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:54.320 were intended to perform, because again, you know, an exo 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:57.760 skeleton in general is meant to augment your abilities in 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:01.360 some way, although in some case says that augmentation is 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:03.960 really more for the purposes of entertainment, which is the 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:08.160 first category I chose because the mainly because the the 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:12.080 I couldn't imagine a use for these first two exo 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:16.480 skeletons beyond impressing people by the fact that you're walking 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:18.920 around in an enormous exo skeleton, I mean, which is 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:23.200 a pretty high impressive factor. Yeah, it's not practical unless 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:26.560 you just want to impress people. So if you're in 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:28.839 l A and well okay, and they have they have 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:32.920 slight uh, they will slightly improve your your grip strength 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:37.560 or your really these two maybe maybe they do. I 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.400 don't know about the Team Skeletronics one, because that one 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:44.240 was based solely upon human power. There's no you know, 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:46.320 a lot of the suits we're gonna talk about today 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.520 are powered suits. Right, they have an additional power source 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.000 that you have to carry around with you or you're 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:54.719 tethered somehow, because some of these are in prototype stage 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:59.400 and aren't you know, standalone devices. Even with pure mechanical levers. 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:01.839 Um this one that you're about to talk about can 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:03.880 give you about twice your normal strength from what I've 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:07.240 read on the internet. Oh wow, So skeleton Yeah, this 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:10.279 will be the I think I said skeletronics, but Skeletonics 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:15.159 rather Team Skeletonics UH is a group that created this 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:21.320 this uh, purely mechanical exoskeleton, meaning not power, not power. 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:25.120 It's powered by human So it's human powered. So if 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:28.400 you've ever seen one of those like in the old cartoons, 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:32.680 the boxing glove that's on the various kind of like 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:36.560 accordion style uh system of levers and so it can 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.280 extend really far out and then come back. That's kind 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.280 of like the basic building block of this thing. It 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:45.480 has all these little interconnecting levers that leverage your movements 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.160 to make them bigger in the form of this exo 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:52.160 skeleton and in fact makes you a little bit taller. Yeah. 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:54.440 They stand about eight ft two inches tall, which is 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:57.120 about two point five meters. Now, Lauren can you imagine 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:01.040 towering over the world at eight ft two and it's delicious. 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:10.080 Lauren is already Oh they were. They were originally designed 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:12.880 by this team of like high school slash college prep 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:16.360 students in Okinawa, which is even better, I think because 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:20.680 it was built by kids. Yeah, and they look hilarious, 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.240 like they look like something I said, they looked like 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:27.560 something from aperture science labs, like Portal Games. Yeah. Yeah, 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:30.880 the big kind of bulbous white section looks like a 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:35.080 hilarious clumsy science experiment. Yeah, you're you're kind of walking 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.120 on these stilts. I mean, and they're and they're well 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:40.160 balanced stilts, but still it's nonetheless, it's still to me. 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:44.480 I'm a big fan of puppetry. My sister is a 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:47.720 professional puppeteer. So the first time I ever saw one 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:49.960 of these on a video, I've never seen it in person, 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:51.960 but when I saw it in motion on video, the 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:53.800 first thing I thought is, Oh, that's a puppet. It's 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.480 it's a giant puppet. And that's really more or less 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:59.480 what this one is. It's a giant puppet. Not I'm 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:03.239 not belittling it, because again I love it's really cool. 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:05.280 Um and you could this is one of the ones 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.520 you could actually go out and buy today. Yeah, for 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:11.440 the low price of undred dollars um you can totally 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:15.360 purchase one, or you could rent one out for parties. Wow, 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:18.600 I totally tell one of these at a party. Now, 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:20.920 I gotta have a party in Tokyo, so I can 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:25.880 have my very own Exo Skeleton performer come in and 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:30.600 maybe make like Exo Skeleton balloon animals or something. Imagine 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:36.760 the the wich fingers would pop them more entertaining. Yeah, 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.960 that'd be fantastic. So that that's the first one we 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:41.880 wanted to talk about. Another one that's kind of similar, 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:43.720 In fact, some would say similar to the point of 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:48.600 they totally stole the design is a Sagawa Electronics Powered 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:53.640 Jacket m K three. So this one, let's stand for 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:57.920 Mortal Kombat three. Not to my knowledge, it would be 0:08:58.000 --> 0:08:59.720 terrible if you as soon as you put on the suit, 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:03.040 you just finishing. Oh the things are about to go 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:07.880 bad now in this case Sgala Electronics. The name the 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:11.760 powered Powered Jacket m K three gives a hint already 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.640 that's different from the first one, right, it does actually 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.400 have supplemental power that goes to it because it actually 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:21.240 has several servos and team to be precise, that would 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.120 control some of the movements. So instead of you moving 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:28.640 your arm up you know, ten inches so that the 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.240 the the robot, the exo skeleton arm goes up you 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.920 know a larger amount based upon the size of the 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.959 exo skeleton. In this one, you would be using controls 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.360 to make certain things happen, like turn the wrists or 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:46.480 open or close the hands. Uh. Their marketing approach is whimsical, 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.120 although that whimsy led to led to a great deal 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.600 of marketing success there, there was a lot of controversy 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.600 when they debuted. The company started up about a year 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:59.040 and a half after Skeletonics and UM their suit went 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.520 up for sale a sing gold day after the Skeletonic 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.600 suit did. And it I mean they have basically admitted 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:08.040 that the mechanics are based on the Skeletonic suit. If 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.640 you look at the two, you can see the similarities 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.720 between them. They're not like the power jacket looks like 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:17.960 it's a smaller form factor, but it's very much the 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:21.000 same shape. Oh sure. UM, and and they are pretty 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.480 proud of those of those electronics in there. UM they 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.080 say that the motorization allows for much smoother motions. But 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:27.920 it's something it's been a little bit of a of 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:32.959 a sticking point that due to this whimsical marketing um 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:36.480 that that they have enjoyed slightly better success. Yeah, y'all 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:41.080 watched the demonstration video on the site. It is so weird. 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:44.520 It is so weird and funny that I was looking 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:46.640 at this like, are we mistake? Is this just like 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:50.000 a prank? It's extremely tongue in cheek. Um. You know 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.600 that the announcer on this thing has this really silly 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.920 scar bakeup. Yeah, he's got all these uh, these fake 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:59.880 scars all over his face where you just assume that 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.800 this was probably something that he, uh that developed after 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:08.360 an unsuccessful prototype test perhaps and the persona that he's 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.800 doing is is a little bit aperture science actually, Like 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:15.880 it's like it's very strange. Yeah, they suggest like you 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:20.440 used the thing for battle that you you know, they've 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:24.640 got these like dramatic scenes. It's very weird. Yeah, Yeah, 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:28.839 it's certainly it's certainly more on the entertainment side. I 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:30.520 would argue then a lot of the other ones we're 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:32.160 going to talk about today, but yeah, I wanted to 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:36.040 get those out of the way because while they are entertaining, 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:40.719 I honestly can't see them being used practically to do 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.720 something that otherwise you would have trouble doing. Jonathan, where's 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.319 the power loader? From Aliens? So is that real? Yet? 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.120 I would argue that the power loader at least drew 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:52.760 some inspiration after a real piece of technology that never 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.040 made it into production. It never made it all the 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.959 prototype stage because it was never it never worked exactly 0:11:58.000 --> 0:11:59.319 the way it was supposed to do. But there was 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:03.400 a prototype powerloader. There was a prototype powerloader by G. E. G. 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:09.160 E built a prototype powerloader type device in nineteen Really, 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:11.679 it was developed in the sixties and early seventies. They 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.760 were working on it for multiple years trying to get 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.400 this thing to work called the Hardy Man H A 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.680 R D I M A N. This thing is Have 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.400 you seen the pictures? Did you guys? Look at the pictures. 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:26.560 It looks like it was, you know, the inspiration for 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:30.840 the powerloader. It looks like a transformer that was originally 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:34.760 a refrigerator unfolded to have arms and legs and have 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.080 a person inside it. It's not extremely elegant, is what 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:42.320 we're saying. So this thing had some pretty incredible goals. 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:45.880 You know, it was it was funded by the US military. Uh, 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:49.319 so you've got the military behind it looking at something 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:53.280 that could allow it to move huge amounts of of payload, 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:57.960 you know, in various applications, and it could, uh in theory, 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:02.080 allow a person to lift up to pounds or six 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:07.120 that's heavy. Yeah, yeah, something something about twenty five times, 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:09.680 like like you would only feel a pound for every 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:13.199 twenty five that you lifted, right, which is pretty amazing. 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.040 Had twenty eight or it was supposed to have twenty 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:20.400 eight movable joints, and it itself weighed hundred pounds. I mean, 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.720 this was no spring chicken. This wasn't something that you're 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:26.000 gonna lightly jump up the side of a cliff, you know. 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:31.560 So very heavy, very bulky, had large hydraulic arms. Uh. 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:36.120 And ultimately it suffered from a lot of different problems 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:39.640 that made GE eventually shelved the project. So they had 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.200 problems with power management, like how do you actually power 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:46.280 this thing where it's not tethered to a giant generator? 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:50.640 How do you make sure that all the joints move properly. 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:54.079 They eventually built an arm that you could put your 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:58.079 arm inside and lift around. Uh. Center and fifty pounds, 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:02.360 which is pretty impressive. However, according to at least one source, 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:07.120 the legs gave them problems, and that when they try 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:10.040 to activate, like try to build legs where it would 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:11.640 you would be able to walk around in this thing, 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:14.320 because clearly you're gonna be able to wear just the 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:18.600 one arm if it weighs about some of the pounds. Yeah, 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.000 you need something that I gotta rip your arm off 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:24.840 at the at the shoulder. Yeah. Because these things were 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.560 mounted on like big pedestals in the testing phases, you know, 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:31.040 it wasn't It wasn't like in final form, So trying 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.280 to build the legs and make them work. It said 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:36.600 that that any attempt to get its legs to work 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.600 resulted in a fit of mechanical st Vitus dance, which 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.240 would mean that you would have no control. You would 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:46.200 suddenly have this stomping, rampaging robot beast that's you're inside. 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:50.080 At best, you would be witnessed to a terrible amount 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.440 of destruction as you flailed around. At worst, you would 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:54.840 be turned into a human bendy toy. Yeah. I had 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.760 the question, is it worst to be inside it or 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:04.000 outside it? Yes? I don't think anyone WINSUM. But anyway 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:05.840 that that if you go and look at the designs 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.000 and we'll link to some stuff on our social network 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.040 platform so you can kind of get a look at this. 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:15.600 It's really an impressive attempt at building a working exoskeleton. 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.600 It just didn't get there all right, Well, I mean 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:21.920 we didn't quite have the power sources or the circuitry 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.160 that could be small enough to really be lightwright enough 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.920 to really function at that point in time. But but 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:29.760 the basic idea of it is what basically everything that 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:31.840 we're going to be talking about today is based on 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.680 being that there are it's really too exo skeletons. It's 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.000 it's it's one that you wear and then one that 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.880 um and an outer one that's connected to that inner 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.880 one that translates the motion. Yeah, and you have to 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:46.040 remember also that it's easy for us to ignore this 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.520 because we don't really necessarily think of it as intelligence. 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:51.320 But this is totally part of artificial intelligence. Absolutely. It's 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:55.240 teaching computers how we humans move and the range of 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.720 motions that we can do and the range emotions that 0:15:57.760 --> 0:15:59.920 we need to do in order to complete certain tasks. 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:03.720 That's all part of artificial intelligence. It's not just how 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:07.160 humans think, it's how we are able to do everything. Well. 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.920 Your motor skills are part of what your brain does, right, right, 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:11.800 We just don't normally think of our motor skills as 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:13.880 part of intelligence. You know, if we're think, if we're 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.720 talking about intelligence, often that we overlook that and and 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:20.360 the algorithms necessary to receive that input and translated into 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:24.840 motion without injuring you or your surroundings are pretty pretty complex. 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.280 This is this is really complicated stuff, which is part 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:30.560 of the reason why it's taking so long to get 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:33.600 an exoskeleton that you know, kind of matches what science 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:38.480 fiction has has portrayed. Even in the more rudimentary implementations 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:42.120 of exo skeletons, it's not a trivial task to both 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:45.520 teach a machine how to move and also miniaturize all 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:48.880 the components and get a form factor that works. But 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:52.000 people have continued to work on it, and we've seen 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:57.040 some pretty incredible implementations. For example, there's the company in 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:03.160 Japan called Cyberdyne. But let's okay, quick, Joe, what significance 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:06.600 does the name Cyberdyne have in science fiction? Cyberdyne is 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:10.119 the name of the corporation and the Terminator franchise that 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:14.359 creates sky Net and the Terminator robots. Sky Net is 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:18.120 the super intelligence that decides to wipe out all of humanity, 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:22.480 I think, originally designed to command their missile defense program, 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:27.119 also creates Terminators, creates T you know, T one thousands, 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.840 all the all the Robert Patricks, all the Arnold Schwarzenegger 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:33.040 is all the what's her name from Terminator, So I'll 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:35.520 just pretend that didn't exist. So what you're arguing is 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:39.800 that perhaps the name Cyberdyne is not the most does 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:44.720 of killing all humans. Okay, But but here's the thing. 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:48.879 Here's the thing. They're actual their actual exoskeleton has a 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:51.240 totally different name. I'm sure it's gonna solve all the problems. 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:57.520 It's named how okay. How of course, being from from 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:03.720 the Bucking Film to Space had another exam intelligence that 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:06.560 tried to kill humans. Yeah, so it's got the Cyberdyne hall. 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.119 So I mean, what can go wrong? Um No, But 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:11.600 this this is a company that was founded by a 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:15.800 professor from the University of Tokuba named Dr Yoshi Yoki 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.640 sun Kai. And uh I thought you were gonna say, 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:25.040 like Professor Blofeld, not quite, it's exactly his name was. No, 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.280 never mind, anyway, we're not gonna we're gonna not gonna 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:31.200 make this even more ridiculous. So, uh, the professor founded 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:35.320 this company, and he actually has very altruistic goals according 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:38.600 to the website. Anyways, he really wants to create an 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:42.399 exo skeleton that can quote that's intended to rather a 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:47.720 quote for the benefits of humankind in the field of medicine, caregiving, welfare, labor, 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:53.040 heavy works, entertainment and so on end quote. So they 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:56.280 are looking at lots of different purposes for this, including 0:18:56.400 --> 0:19:00.119 using it to lift heavy things in a repetitive of 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:03.560 way to avoid injury that you might suffer either because 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:05.760 you're lifting something that's really heavy or that you have 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:09.280 to do a repetitive task uh throughout the day. You know, 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:13.240 these are things that can easily create either acute or 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:16.399 long term injuries in people. And the idea would be 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:20.040 this particular kind of exo skeleton would take on a 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:23.040 lot of the weight of whatever task you're doing. Right. Um, 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:26.160 it actually hypothetically feels weightless while you're wearing it, and 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:30.120 it works by picking up your your nerve signals subcutaneously 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:33.919 and interpreting them into motion. Uh, they've They've also built 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:38.119 a couple of models that are radiation shielded, presumably for 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:41.520 work in a houkachima and clean up sites like that. Yeah. 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:43.200 In fact, if you look at the one that has 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:45.880 the radiation shielding on it, you can start to see 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:49.520 maybe why someone might think RoboCop was an exo skeleton. Yes, 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.760 even though that's not correct, but very RoboCop issue. I 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:55.320 would argue that that the design of many of these 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:58.040 are starting to be cross influenced by some of these 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:01.280 media portrayals. Oh sure, yeah they' There is no doubt 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:05.399 that at least some of these designs are trying to 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:10.080 kind of capture that same feel of various media portrayals, 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:12.440 not all of them. Some of them are very utilitarian. 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:15.520 They're specifically designed just to do what they're supposed to do. 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:18.080 And we're just about to talk about a bunch of that, 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:21.800 yes we are. Uh so, those are the cyber Dine 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:24.040 one and the G one are the two that I 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:28.360 listed as uh, industrial exoskeletons meant too, they were meant 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:31.400 to try and help in these kind of work tasks. 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:33.920 I got the military is working on these, aren't they, 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:37.920 You know, you'd be right. First of all, of course, 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:39.760 we mentioned in the g E one that that was 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:44.040 funded by the military. Another military funded project was the 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:48.719 Berkeley Lower Extremity Exo Skeleton or BLEAKS, which was funded 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:52.280 by DARPA in two thousand. It was specifically meant to 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:55.560 help soldiers carry heavy loads on long marches. Right like 0:20:55.840 --> 0:20:58.200 that happens so soldiers have to do all the time. 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:01.520 So if you have to get a bunch of people 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:04.520 with who are carrying a lot of equipment to a 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:07.800 remote location where vehicles are not an option, then this 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:09.840 is a way of offsetting that weight so that the 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:12.560 soldiers are not exhausting themselves just getting from point A 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:16.760 to point B. So that was the basic um premises 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:19.680 of the basic the basic task that they had when 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:21.480 they were trying to create these things. They're also looking 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:24.560 at them not just for soldiers, but for first responders 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:27.320 like firefighters who might need to carry quite a bit 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:29.439 of equipment themselves in order to get to a remote 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:31.439 location to be able to fight a fire. You know, 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:34.200 you can't always get a fire truck there or all 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:36.800 the other equipment that they need to be able to 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:39.760 help people in that kind of situation. So this was 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:42.560 a way of creating something that would support that weight. 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:45.400 And again you're looking at kind of a harness, uh, 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:51.080 harness that has various methods of offsetting weight and creating 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:53.520 its own amount of energy to supplement what you have 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:58.080 so that you can more easily carry a heavier load. 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:01.480 It's the basic idea. Also, I don't know if you 0:22:01.480 --> 0:22:03.119 guys got a chance to watch the video, did you. 0:22:04.080 --> 0:22:06.199 I saw pictures, but I didn't watch it in motions. 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:08.359 So yeah, I watched the video, and I've written in 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:10.040 my notes here and I'm not gonna say it the 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:11.800 way it is in the show, because otherwise I will 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:16.760 blow out the microphone. But it's whisper why I said's 0:22:16.800 --> 0:22:19.240 it sounded like you're wearing a snowblower. I mean it 0:22:19.320 --> 0:22:23.000 was maybe maybe not for stealth missions, but but but 0:22:23.000 --> 0:22:24.960 but the way it's working here technically is it's it's 0:22:25.000 --> 0:22:27.560 got this pair of powered legs and the sensors and 0:22:27.600 --> 0:22:29.879 the legs and shoepads figure out what you're doing, and 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:33.040 then hydraulics in the system do all the heavy lifting 0:22:33.119 --> 0:22:36.680 for you. It should hypothetically let you carry seventy pounds 0:22:37.119 --> 0:22:41.399 and feel as though you're only carrying five. Interesting, Well, 0:22:41.520 --> 0:22:46.520 that's pretty awesome. There's another example of military harnesses UH 0:22:46.640 --> 0:22:50.200 and Exo skeletons called the Exos two. Now, grant, there 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:53.440