DailyDirt: We Can Rebuild Him. We Have The Technology.
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The six million dollar man was grossly underpriced. But someday the technology to to augment human limbs and senses could come down in costs. There are plenty of engineers working on robotic prosthetics. Here are just a few examples.- The Mercedes GP Petronas F1 team is sponsoring a bionic limb for a 14-yr old kid... and you can, too. This sounds a bit more praiseworthy than the million dollar home page. [url]
- Robotic exoskeletons are on the way (in a decade or so). The Raytheon Sarcos XOS 2 is the second generation of the XOS 1 robo-suit which came out in 2008. But late adopters should probably wait for the third iteration to really work out the kinks. [url]
- A powered prosthetic leg that has software-controlled knee and ankle joints weighs just 9 pounds -- a bit less than most natural lower limbs. This artificial leg also has an "anti-stumble" feature and can go about 8 miles on a single charge. [url]
- To discover more interesting tech-related content, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]
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Filed Under: bionic, exoskeleton, limb, prosthetics
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Not overpriced - today's price is over inflated.
The six million dollar man was grossly underpriced.
Sure you have not got the brains to work out that $6 million dollars in 2011 is worth ALOT less than $6 million is 1974.
I guess a dissusion about "price" and "value" would be far beyond you.
they allready have, what about hearing aids, sight aids, and yes new composite artificial limbs, that have been around for YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS. From well before 1974.
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Not Overpriced
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