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AWARE—AWAreness during REsuscitation—A prospective study - Resuscitation. Robotic Exoskeleton Gets Safety Green Light. A robot suit that can help the elderly or disabled get around was given its global safety certificate in Japan on Wednesday, paving the way for its worldwide roll-out.

Robotic Exoskeleton Gets Safety Green Light

The Hybrid Assistive Limb, or HAL, is a power-assisted pair of legs developed by Japanese robot maker Cyberdyne, which has also developed similar robot arms. A quality assurance body issued the certificate based on a draft version of an international safety standard for personal robots that is expected to be approved later this year, the ministry for the economy, trade and industry said. NEWS: Bionic Legs Allow Paraplegic to Stand and Walk The metal-and-plastic exoskeleton has become the first nursing-care robot certified under the draft standard, a ministry official said. Battery-powered HAL, which detects muscle impulses to anticipate and support the user's body movements, is designed to help the elderly with mobility or help hospital or nursing carers to lift patients.

VIDEO: Man Controls Robotic Arm with His Mind. Officials Declare ‘Eating Healthy’ A Mental Disorder. Jeffery Jaxen, Natural Society In an attempt to curb the mass rush for food change and reform, psychiatry has green lighted a public relations push to spread awareness about their new buzzword “orthorexia nervosa,” defined as “a pathological obsession for biologically pure and healthy nutrition.”

Officials Declare ‘Eating Healthy’ A Mental Disorder

In other words, experts are moving toward saying that our demand for nutrient-dense, healthful food is a mental disorder that must be treated. CNN, Fast Company, Popular Science, and other top outlets have all began to trumpet the talking points on cue relatively recently: “Orthorexia nervosa is a label designated to those who are concerned about eating healthy. Characterized by disordered eating fueled by a desire for “clean” or “healthy” foods, those diagnosed with the condition are overly pre-occupied with the nutritional makeup of what they eat”.

Psychiatry as a whole is deeply in bed with a pharmaceutical industry that makes the drugs to “treat” every one of these “disorders.” Popular Science. Science-Based Medicine. How Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) Exoskeleton Suit Works - Smashing Robotics. Every human being has bones which constitute the framework that supports the body, this is the skeleton.

How Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) Exoskeleton Suit Works - Smashing Robotics

Because its elements, the bones, are inside our body, under the layers of skin and muscles, it is also called an endoskeleton. The external artificial system, added for support and protection, is called an external skeleton or exoskeleton. Such a suit has a clear role and can be used in fields like army, medical, constructions, etc. Fiction has become reality once the HAL suit, produced by Cyberdyne based in Japan, has been launched. Its name is related to the movie “Terminator”, where the company with the same name produced Skynet, a fictional artificial intelligence system. HAL or Hybrid Assistive Limb, is perhaps the most advanced exoskeleton suit available on market. What can it do? Used as an extension of the body structure, HAL5 is used to support movement and to lift weights.

How it works HAL is a cyborg type robot used to support and expand capabilities of the human body.