TOKYO - Millions of years after the ancestors of humans evolved to lose their tails, a research team at Japan’s Keio University have built a robotic one they say could help unsteady elderly people keep their balance.
“The tail keeps balance like a pendulum,” said Junichi Nabeshima, a graduate student and researcher at the university’s Embodied Media Project, displaying the robotic tail attached to his waist with a harness.As Japan greys it is leading the industrial world in seeking ways to keep its aging population mobile and productive.
The robotic tail, which uses four artificial muscles and compressed air to move in eight directions, will remain in the lab for now, however, as researchers look for ways to make it more flexible, Nabeshima said.
Stop, you just wanted to build a robot tail.
Yeah that's practical...
人間もしっぽの時代？
あふれるメカゴジラ感…😅
Elderly will really try keeping their balance with that thing hanging behind their backs
オートバランサーか。色んな場面で活躍しそうだ🤔
Very interesting
すばらしい、発明。これで、杖なしでも、安心して歩けるようになるだろう。
Great ..we have to walk around with tails now
Nn .^_^
As long as the elderly live in a minimalist space, with nothing to knock over ...
I can finally be like Goku from DBZ
Is it comfortable to sit on?
annikasmethurst ...oh dear .... I don’t think it will go with my ball gown....
Not just elderly. I have MS and I can see not needing my cane with this “tail”. Plus my granddaughter would love it.
dynamic counterbalance. It makes sense so long as it doesn't cause the person wearing it to fall over backwards.
If an elderly person can lift that thing....why would they need it?
Where can I get one of these? I want to wear one into a job interview.
Very talented & ingenious.
We all know this is going to end up as a furry accessory with dildo attachments.
so elderly people will grow tails from now on.... That would be a human evolution with the help of technology... I hope I won't grow that old.
Que jokes about posessing similar stabilizing appendage to the front
Brilliant
I'm concerned with the weight of the rig, especially for elderly people, being so low on the back.
Supervillians are on their way.
ロボットのしっぽがお年寄りのバランス保持に。テクノロジーが退化した機能をよみがえらせるということか。未来にはしっぽを付けたお年寄りが街に現れるようになるのかな笑。
When you can make it do this, we'll talk
OR... they are creating mini godzillas
Until furries get wind of this
Yeah but no one is gonna walk around with that attached to them come on.
What if the weight of the tail is enough to CRUSH my mother's hips and pin her to the floor ?
nah this is for furries they're just embarrassed to say it out loud you absolutely cannot convince me otherwise
if we really evolved why would we have lost our tails? tails are super fucking useful for so many things
Like kangaroos.
Like kangaroos.
Has science gone too far
OMG has anybody thought what would happen if they stare at the moon?
Heads or tails ?
Grandma discovered she's a furry.
Unless you can use it to stir coffee or entertain the cat it isn't as useful as it could be.
My grams would certainly be an early adopter.
İP CANBAZLARININ İŞİNE YARAR GAPIYOM GAPAYIN AÇIIIK VEEEE NEEET
ULAN O TİP BİR YAŞLI İNSAN BUNU NASIL TAŞIR TAMAM SÜREDURUM FİZİK İLKESİNE MÜDAHALE EDİP YAŞLIYI RAHATLATACAK AMA BUNUN BİR AĞIRLIĞI OLMASI GEREKİRKİ SÜREDURUMA MÜDAHALE EDEBİLSİN GAPIYOM GAPAYIN AÇIIIK VEEEE NEEEET
Please include the wings. So people could use it in thier travel🤣
Seriously?
They may be following that tail
Something tells me Nana isn't going to go for this. Does it come in a hat form?
Has it got a built in seat or a detachable one ?
Elderly people will not wear this but the furries are crying tears of joy right now.
Another firm evidence of Evolution theory😂
Francine. Yes Beatrice. Do you know you have a tail? Oh yes. It helps me to keep my balance. Oh. Okay
oh good, that gives us a good excuse to wreck our bodies for the shareholders.
Science rocks! :-) ...
Sitting down may be a challenge..
It would be more dignified to let them fall over
الحمد لله انهم اخترعوه ياما ناس محتاجتو 😄😄
Of all possible designs, why a tail?
😂😂😂😂😂
Very interesting. This is what World needs, innovation.
i'd strap it to the front 😎
That's cool! I wonder if you could whack would be attackers with it? The old guy in Brooklyn could have used one if so !
lol this is funny
Are older people in Japan nicer than the American ones? American old people would use this to torment younger people even more so than they do now.
They are just trying to make Saiyans
For the elderly............ yeah I believe that...... . 😁😁😁,not.
Can it be used in front?🤔🎅🏻
I like the approach to innovation: to mimic what works in Nature...but showing this on a young lad isn't very convincing. :)
And mess their knees and hips up. Possibly put more stress on their upper body and pelvic cradle. And will Medicare pay for this before the US government embezzles the rest of the fund for their ski trips and hookers?
Totally agree with this prototype
you're welcome
I wonder how much that sucker weighs.
Fantastic, it used to be a family joke, amazed to see some one finally understood the need
Doesn't look like that would work very well.
Meanwhile in America:
Could be great for correcting postures!
doctor octopus spiderman
It only weighs 40lbs.
The Furries are going to love that shit
WTF
Puhhllleeeezzzz
Good look getting the elderly to carry it and it’s compressor around with them.
Y’all seen Spider-Man right? We know how this ends.
🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵
My 12 yr. old son’s question: “How much does it weigh?” 🤔
😅, oh no, do humans need tails now.
Surely a really weak elderly person will just fall backwards with all that weight or trip over those cables!
Grandzilla 😂
*Furries will remember that*
lol
Very Godzilla in the senior center to me, just don’t see many grannies using this
Weird but cool.
Will we be able to wag it?
They’re turning them into lizard people.
Kind of looks like Godzilla but miniaturized
I think I will just crawl instead. 🙄
lol “y’all he’s old, look at his tail”
Of course the Japanese had to make elderly care kinky too
I hope it they fall backward it acts like a spring cushion (ala Tigger).
DrBuddyLeeMurda GODJIRA
How they manage the tail while sitting or driving?
Now there's something Beto could definitely use.
Yeah, totally for the elderly.
Right. For the 'elderly'. This is going to be used for highend furries
OwO what’s this
Japan's gonna turn your grandma into Doc Ock
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