We had to do a double take when we saw that a company called Cyberdyne recently demonstrated a “cyborg-type” “robot suit.” Our double take was quickly followed by yet another double take (would that be a quadruple take?) when we saw that Cyberdyne was calling the robot suit, “HAL.” (For those who are missing the Sci-Fi cultural references: Cyberdyne was the name of the fictional company from the Terminator movies that eventually gives rise to the artificial intelligence and cyborgs that nearly wipe out humanity;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We had to do a double take when we saw that a company called Cyberdyne recently demonstrated a “cyborg-type” “robot suit.” Our double take was quickly followed by yet another double take (would that be a quadruple take?) when we saw that Cyberdyne was calling the robot suit, “HAL.” (For those who are missing the Sci-Fi cultural references: Cyberdyne was the name of the fictional company from the Terminator movies that eventually gives rise to the artificial intelligence and cyborgs that nearly wipe out humanity; Continue reading