Is that really the only name you could come up with?

[coldjones]

I don't know if I've ever actually mentioned it, but what I study in grad school is team formation between autonomous software agents - in layman's terms, "applied AI". Especially since some of our stuff would work really well when applied to UAVs or other robotic drones, my labmates and I occasionally joke about building the Matrix, or being the

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[nichm]

And their first product is apparently called the Hyper Assistive Limb, or... HAL. This has to be a joke.

[coldjones]

Based on a little more web searching,Engadget was reporting it as a real thing two years ago, so... maybe this guy's just a big SF buff?