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This is the Giacometti Robotic Arm designed and built by researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology's Suzumori Endo Lab. The surprisingly precise arm stretches 65-feet, has a small camera attached at the end, and can be controlled using the ultra-lightweight artificial muscles connecting each segment. It weighs 2.5-pounds.
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Jesus Christ. If we had only thought of or created this earlier, incidents like the Nutty Putty cave death could be avoided... or any situation where a person needs to be removed or saved from an irretrievable position.
It's still only just now being invented so it's still not available. Don't go getting stuck upside down in caves anytime soon.
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>>58211312
For reference: Nutty Putty cave, guy slipped into a hole upside down in an irretrievable position, got stuck to the point that pulling him out was impossible.
With an inflatable robotic arm with a camera they would have been able to slip under his body and sort of scoop him out. They might need a heavier arm than the two pounds, but it would work.
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Forgot vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INTHRNcyW9w
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>>58211346
That guy died because he put himself in this situation for a thrill and it horribly backfired. Though he did convince me and probably many others to never do such a thing.
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>>58211312
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Is this that and that this?
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>>58211492
Extremely similar, just using air pressure and chambers (similar to hydraulics) instead of servos. So with enough development it should be capable of lifting full grown people easily, probably even entire vehicles.
>>58211453
You can just imagine him climbing over that last upward turn thinking there would be a place to kneel or place his hands. Instead it was just one long downward slope after another too small for him to turn around at any point. The horror.
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>>58211492
Some crazy shit in that thread.
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