The elderly and disabled will not be their biggest client base.
Evolution: 🖕
Submitted 7 months ago by Uri@infosec.pub to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Drekaridill@feddit.is 7 months ago
ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Just what the japanes elderly need, a heavy battery powered contraption strapped to their waist to be more stable. I’ve also heard in Tokyo that everyone is always 5ft apart from one another, plenty of room to be whipping a pseudo tail around.
EldenLord@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Just uhh…give it a few wheels, optimally in the front…like make it 4 wheels and they can grab 2 handles with brakes to stabilize on slopes. They might not even have to use the tail too much
…oh that‘s just a walker.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
a walker but strap 2 jet engines to it
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Oh that rural Tokyo, where the rice fields go on further than the eye can see. This would be super helpful navigating those plank bridges.
glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
looks like human godzilla
oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
All the transspecies creatures here: “want!”
ameancow@lemmy.world 7 months ago
transspecies creatures
Furries. Just call them furries.
oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
No. Some furries might also be transspecies but they are two entirely different things.
noxypaws@pawb.social 7 months ago
I fucking need one
ameancow@lemmy.world 7 months ago
For your fursuit.
noxypaws@pawb.social 7 months ago
I don’t have a fursuit.
The really frustrating thing about that fact is that I commissioned and paid for a fursuit, and yet I have no fursuit.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 7 months ago
I’d get 5 so I can work without hands.
mister_flibble@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Be careful or you’re gonna end up fighting Spiderman.
Padit@feddit.org 7 months ago
I was a bit surprised because I had never heard of that research group, but apparently they are not from the engineering department, but from media design.
Here is some more Info, if anyone is curious. But it seems more like a concept paper, than an extra prototype.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 7 months ago
I can think of another demographic that would like this…
echodot@feddit.uk 7 months ago
It’s Japan, we all know what they really invented it for. But they needed something accessable to put on the grant application
bluecat_OwO@lemmy.world 7 months ago
what about the added weight of the tail? I dont believe elderly got good knees
wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Yeah we should make it more like the rear-half of a centaur
bluecat_OwO@lemmy.world 7 months ago
atp isn’t it just wheelchair but legs
so legchair
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Make it a monkey tail and I could pull off a decent vegetable cosplay.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 7 months ago
Future cosplay is going to be lit.
Zyratoxx@fedia.io 7 months ago
Can I... uhhm... get one too? Maybe a little more fluffy? Ohh, and it would be nice if it could wag too... U know... Just for... uhhm... balancing purposes...
(‘~‘; )
👉👈
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Theres a few companies that make moving tails (and wings) for a few hundred USD, but they tend to be waitless rather than designed for balancing
Zerush@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Now that is some kickass artwork
qarbone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They got the guy three sets of robohands but couldn’t figure out some mechanolegs for him?
Zerush@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Same for this Tail, there are better system to solve postural problems, walking difficulties and other physical issues. How will you simply sit down with this tail? Or precisely in Japan, entering in an Subway with it?
merrickal@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Is this a return to monke meme made manifest?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 months ago
looks more like a scorpion tail.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
honestly the best posture advice I have ever gotten is to sit like I have a tail (you would have to tilt your hips forward and stick your butt out behind you to put the tail up behind you rather than curling your tailbone under such that you’d be sitting on the tail).
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Nobody wants to do that because men are thirsty.
bluecat_OwO@lemmy.world 7 months ago
true as a man, they thirst for my booty when all I care for is good back posture
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
As a five five man I can assure you that I do do this and the only ones thirsty for that are my cats seeking ont my blood.
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 7 months ago
Hahahaha insert of the day 😂
I’m not sitting improperly… It’s the patriarchy!
blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 7 months ago
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Finally something to balance the enormous mass I have in front.
kieron115@startrek.website 7 months ago
If you have an erection lasting more than four hours please contact your doctor.
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
But how will I then hang my coat?
Red_October@lemmy.world 7 months ago
He’ll probably be pretty impressed and offer a high five.
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I have a feeling a completely different audience has a definite interest. They would just cover it in the same fur as the rest of their costume.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I was hoping for research into genetically adding one to a human, but I’ll.take this.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You already have the nerves there, and it’s quite trivial to connect them to a neurotransmitter, especially since the patent expired.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yup. That’s the most cost-effctive solution to the elderly falling problem. Trust me there is no other reason we are doing this.
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Money for elderly that can prevent them from needing very expensive nursing home care is a huge market with no limit if the product works well. Especially for Japan but really everywhere will have increasingly large cohorts of their elderly people with not enough young people to care for them.
kofe@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My dreams of kick boxing like a kangaroo may finally come truee
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Won’t people get used to this, making it harder to walk without it?
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 7 months ago
Exactly, it will work just like glasses, help people avoid real struggle and not do their best to overcome simple issues like aging hips
silasmariner@programming.dev 7 months ago
Only if it’s useful
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And also sitting down is hard now. But yeah, you have to imagine all the stabilization your muscles used to do are now taken care of by this robot tail. So atrophy away!
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What sort of a trophy we talkin here?
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Eventually the tail offers to curl up and carry you, then we’re just a step away from the Wall-E chairs
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Looking at other papers from the same lab and this is the silliest paper I’ve ever seen, they’re evaluating the effect of shining rgb lights at glass noodles on the eating experience
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Imagine working in a retirement home and one day one if the residents tells yoz “I am taking part in this clinical trial” only to come back as Doctor fucking Octopus.
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I just want a third arm, is that too much to ask? Imagine how many tasks would be easier with that.
vic_rattlehead@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Say a prayer to the Four-Armed Emperor.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Fuck. Yes. Id make so many comments about killing spider man.
Darako@lemmy.world 7 months ago
vane@lemmy.world 7 months ago
mandatory Reptilians conspiracy theory video
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 7 months ago
YES
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Now if it can stab people and drain them of their bioenergy, I can reach my final form!
Hupf@feddit.org 7 months ago
kieron115@startrek.website 7 months ago
I’m supposed to be cleaning but now I’m laughing too hard imagining some “saturday morning cartoon” tokusatsu show about a squad of mecha-grandmas.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
tokusatsu
What does this word mean?
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Tonight on Lifetime-Japan, Speed Walkers - A motley crew of septuagenarians must defeat the evil doer, osteoarthritis man, else they will be forced to deal with painful joints! Can these grizzled grandmas come out victorious? Tune in to find out!
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 7 months ago
I’d buy one. If I could wag it, I’d happily buy two!
tomiant@programming.dev 7 months ago
Does it come in a front side model?