If you’re over the feel of raw fish when cooking, tired of cracking an egg on your own, and wish you didn’t have to run all by yourself anymore then the Powered Jacket MK3 might be perfect for you. Sagawa Electronics Inc., a Japanese company, has come out with the first exoskeleton that can be worn.
It’s made of a hybrid structure with an aluminum and fiber frame that stands about seven-and-a-half feet tall and weighs about 55 pounds. After power is switched on from the back, the user simply straps himself into the Powered Jacket MK3 and instantly the joints on the robot are motorized copying the user’s every move. The robot can even mimic a light jog with the user a few feet off the ground. Sagawa Electronics states that the Powered Jacket “allows to enhance, as well as strengthen, human movement with the motion master slave, walking stability mechanism and elastic joints” that are controlled by electronic motors. The body of the suit is made up on semicircular canals, which makes it easy to walk in.
The Powered Jacket will debut at the Wonder Festival 2013 in Japan and retail at $123,000, or 12.5 million yen. So far, only five jackets have been made, and Sagawa says that for now it has no plans to produce more Powered Jackets.
Sagawa Electronics has created a humorous video to promote their new product. The video featured “Scarface Santaro”, a cut up inventor who assists a high school girl in demonstrating the first stand-up exoskeleton. Here you can see the Powered Jacket’s ability to “sprint like a ninja”, make a normal high school girl “appear cute”, and breakdance with a friend on the city streets. And how could you forget about the love scene at the end!
Watch the video below:
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