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I can think of another demographic that would like this...
It's Japan, we all know what they really invented it for. But they needed something acceptable to put on the grant application
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.
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, isn‘t it?
a walker but strap 2 jet engines to it
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.
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...
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Don't hide it Japan, you're just doing this to make cat girls
Also these ears will help to uh, absorb the echoes and extra noise of the world around you. Yeah.
Looks more like Mecha-Godzilla, tho.
So, uh, you reckon you could fit eight of those on one person?
I think we can do just four
They need to increase their birthrate somehow.
This feels more like monkey nannas. An entirely more niche kink.
contrary to popular beliefs real cat girls do exist in Japan. there is more information on the internet https://redlib.orangenet.cc/r/realscatgirls . unfortunately it's on reddit not on lemmy (yet).
catgirl mecha, if we're being precise.
Is it prehensile? This could lead to octopus-like abilities if you added more than one.
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.
I'd get 5 so I can work without hands.
Be careful or you're gonna end up fighting Spiderman.
Imagine working in a retirement home and one day one of the residents tells you "I am taking part in this clinical trial" and then she comes back as Doctor fucking Octopus.
I just want a third arm, is that too much to ask? Imagine how many tasks would be easier with that.
Say a prayer to the Four-Armed Emperor.
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.
I was hoping for research into genetically adding one to a human, but I'll.take this.
You already have the nerves there, and it's quite trivial to connect them to a neurotransmitter, especially since the patent expired.
Now if it can stab people and drain them of their bioenergy, I can reach my final form!
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.
Yup. That's the most cost-effctive solution to the elderly falling problem. Trust me there is no other reason we are doing this.
My dreams of kick boxing like a kangaroo may finally come truee
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.
I posted this comment on another thread:
My elation can't be measured.
Both sysadmins and hentai enthusiasts rejoice!
Did you really need to specify the same thing twice?
Lol, actually, I was even thinking of specifically additionally naming elderly sysadmins and elderly hentai enthusiasts too ...
what about the added weight of the tail? I dont believe elderly got good knees
Yeah we should make it more like the rear-half of a centaur
atp isn't it just wheelchair but legs
so legchair
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).
Nobody wants to do that because men are thirsty.
true as a man, they thirst for my booty when all I care for is good back posture
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.
It remeber me an painting of Patrick Woodroffe
They got the guy three sets of robohands but couldn't figure out some mechanolegs for him?
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? They often invent overcomplicated solutions without need, for easy to solve problems, above solving it only tangential and even adding more problems.
Is that photo AI? All the videos of the real prototype look substantially different.
At best it's concept art, tho that thin strap probably wouldn't serve the purpose they're looking for. At worst it's generated by clickbait article writers.
How could they pass up an "electrified facehugger penis sheath" image like this?
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/japan-robotic-tail-intl-hnk-trnd/index.html
fr tho it's pretty cool research
I'm just imagining the scene in a sci fi comedy.
"I thought you said we were getting mechanical tails? Why the Hell is this attached to my front?"
"Experiments determined that this was actually the more effective and cheaper option. Don't worry, a front tail works just fine for balance!"
That one looks attached at the front ...
You're right, it seems. That video is old (6 years), but I couldn't find any photos or videos that look substantially different from it.
"Arque tail" is the keywords to search for, if anyone wants to do their own research.
Do people just use "AI" now instead of "Photoshopped"
What kind of office chair has one leg that's 50% longer than the others and why is there a tube extending directly downward from the ceiling to above that chair? People cranking out this sort of thing absolutely use AI instead of Photoshop now.
Furry costumes just got more lifelike.
In all seriousness, human elderlies are actually evolutionary anomaly, because if Darwinian tenet of "survival of the fittest" applies 100% of the time, they would not be the norm. But the fact that old people are prevalent in human society is the proof that we are compassionate and loving creatures that transcend cold evolutionary programming. We care for others and the vulnerable.
Sure, in the context of physical abilities.
However, i think bands of hominids who care for each other have a survival advantage. I guess thats who we've evolved to be social creatures.
Also,, nanna might not be able to hunt mammoths anymore, but she knows what to do in years when the mammoth dont come.
There are other species which have elderly members, namely whales and elephants.
It’s postulated that having grandmothers helps in a species where young take a long time to mature.
The thing is, for it to be an evolutionary advantage it can't be common. That's one theory behind why grandmas aren't more common in species.
darwinian selection has nothing to do with aging. that's religious right / 1920s robber baron bullshit.
Actually having elders in human societies is shown to positively correlate with better outcomes for the youth in that society. Grandmothers in particular have a measurable benefit.
Except that it isn't a religious thing. I don't know if it was natural selection or societal pressure causing artificial selection, but human's are something of an evolutionary anomaly in the sense that the only other animals on earth who go through menopause are a few species of whales. There's a whole evolutionary hypothesis tied to it called the grandmother hypothesis. Or you can watch this PBS video about it if you don't feel like reading. It's pretty interesting really.
Edit: I'm also just gonna paste a paragraph from the wikipedia if people want the tl;dr.
Evolutionary theory dictates that all organisms invest heavily in reproduction in order to replicate their genes. According to parental investment, human females will invest heavily in their young because the number of mating opportunities available to them and how many offspring they are able to produce in a given amount of time is fixed by the biology of their sex. This inter birth interval (IBI) is a limiting factor in how many children a woman can have because of the extended developmental period that human children experience. Extended childhood, like the extended post-reproductive lifespan for females, is relatively unique to humans.[8] Because of this correlation, human grandmothers are well-poised to provide supplemental parental care to their offspring's children. Since their grandchildren still carry a portion of their genes, it is still in the grandmother's genetic interest to ensure those children survive to reproduction.
What was that study again? Something like 30% of people would just swerve into a fake turtle to kill it, for no fucking reason at all. TL;DR There's an anomaly alright, murdery people.
I posted this further down but you would enjoy it if you haven't seen it already. The end of the video supports your statement. Why Your Grandmother Is an Evolutionary Mystery
fact that old people are prevalent in human society is the proof that we are compassionate and loving creatures
It could be media/social programing from perspective of the wiser imposed on the foolish.
The next thing I need is an articulated mouth and the ability to spit fire. And spikes on my back!
For balance as well, obviously.
Will it stop my girlfriend from poking at my butthole when I'm above her on the stairs?
Nothing will
Ladies first, for this reason
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
About time they did something for the furries.
Yeah, that'll help elderly people with mobility issues — hucking another 5 kg of metal, motors and batteries around.
The way it’s depicted, the weight will be felt around the center point of the body. That’s where it exerts the least force. Also I contest the notion that a difference of 5kg is that significant, even in elderly people.
Where the weight acts is significant imo, and the hips near the spine is probably most stable.
One of the typical bits of advice for elderly folks walking around is a five pound limit on carried items, so five kilos is probably going to affect things more. Poor mobility is a downward line though, not a sudden switch that is flipped, so there is a range of walking difficulties and I'm sure some of that range will be helped by a device like this.
Is this a return to monke meme made manifest?
YES. THIS IS THE GOAL.
This is just the first step towards making Dr Octopuss a reality. AND WE DON'T HAVE SPIDERMAN TO SAVE US!!!!
Don't worry, Walmart is working on creating Shrimpman
I would say it’s more like Scorpion (the tail) meets Vulture (the elderly).
THIS is, yes, but they're saying its the first step.
Why do we need a spiderman? I've got two granny-pusses and a grandpaussy in the retirement home that can come put a squash on any shenanigans.
I would put it on the front
Make it a monkey tail and I could pull off a decent vegetable cosplay.
looks more like a scorpion tail.
What's next, litter boxes in nursing homes? /s
Cat girl GILFs
Won't people get used to this, making it harder to walk without it?
Only if it's useful
About time this cyberpunk timeline got on with the cool bits
Can we wear these if we don't have balance issues? Asking for a friend.
Would the tail improve the movements for a Shinobi?
beats using a cane!
Imagine that thing when family come to visit. Wagging. Like. Crazy.
i just want to know if i can wag it and maybe wap someone with it if they're walking too close, all with just my brain
Improve it by covering it in fake skin, the same used on limb prosthesis! /s
I'd buy one. If I could wag it, I'd happily buy two!
Finally something so I can walk home when drunk.
Rotate 180 degrees and consider the pegging possibilities. Some modifications required of course.
No modifications required, it's fine as is.
I've always wanted to be a T.Rex.
Is belt mounted the only attachment option? Asking for a friend.
This might be the most Japanese thing I've ever seen
mandatory Reptilians conspiracy theory video
The elderly and disabled will not be their biggest client base.