The F18 electronics art group built a lot of Stelarc's exoskeletal gear. I wonder what would happen if they ever got together with Carlos "Neogentronyx" Owens?

For carrying heavy loads, why not try some exoskeletal legs?

bleex.me.berkeley.edu

http://www.isbweb.org/~byp/

Booyah!

GYPSY suits, a trademark of Analogus corp, are ( telemetry suits suitable for motion-capture and controlling things like humanoid robots in real-time. )

Need a material that can bend and flex, but still conduct electricity?

Metal Rubber

Some of the videos here (http://unit.aist.go.jp/is/dsysd/mtran/English/experimentE.htm) might be of interest to anyone looking to create transforming robots that have parts detach and then reattach at other locations ( Read more... )

http://sanlab.kz.tsukuba.ac.jp/HAL/indexE.html

HAL is effectively a power-assist for leg movements. Originally designed to help people with gait disorders, it might be an interesting addition to a heavy robot suit, so you don't get the Frankensteinian Klompy-feet effect when walking. Useful for designs that incorporate Gundam boots for extra

Link - http://www.aist.go.jp/no_header/kyouryu.html4MB video of some dinosaur-skinned walking robots. Looks like a tyrannosaur and some kind of hadrosaur, but I'm no paleontologist. They're not terribly fast, but they can turn around, sit up, flap their jaws and blink, and they're self-contained - no cables or ground attachments. No idea how long ( Read more... )

Scanning the list of journals that list mechatronics and biomechatronics as interests, the number (including my own) which actually have measurable percentages of M/BM-related material is... zero.

Yaaaay.

Closest match I found was one which had a link to MyEngineering.net, but as that site has no content anyway, it's kind of moot.

Went to a ( trivia night. )