The elderly and disabled will not be their biggest client base.
Don't hide it Japan, you're just doing this to make cat girls
Why stop there? I want my dog and fox and wolf girls too
Won't someone think of the poor working class furries? A fur suit can already cost 10 or 20 grand. Now they're going to have to add cyborg body parts to the mix as well? Talk about gentrification!
Also these ears will help to uh, absorb the echoes and extra noise of the world around you. Yeah.
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
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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How about bionic ear appendages to combat hearing loss?
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.
Now if it can stab people and drain them of their bioenergy, I can reach my final form!
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.
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My elation can't be measured.
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?
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.
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Yup. That's the most cost-effctive solution to the elderly falling problem. Trust me there is no other reason we are doing this.
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'd get 5 so I can work without hands.
Be careful or you're gonna end up fighting Spiderman.
Furry costumes just got more lifelike.
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.
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.
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).
Will it stop my girlfriend from poking at my butthole when I'm above her on the stairs?
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
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.
Almost all of it comes down to how long it takes to raise children. It takes a lot more people and effort and time to raise humans vs any other species, and its made us unique in that we have essentially support roles. Elderly people, people who can't or dont want to have kids of their own, even older children, all have a role to play in making sure we make it to adulthood and continue the species.
Yeah, that'll help elderly people with mobility issues — hucking another 5 kg of metal, motors and batteries around.
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