Talk:Hybrid Assistive Limb

Portent?

At the risk of being superstitious: doesn't it bother anyone that HAL is the (partial) name of the crazy computer in the Space Odyssey saga and the manufacturer Cyberdyne is a reminiscent of Cyberdyne Systems Corporation, which in the Terminator universe is responsible for the killer terminators? White rotten rabbit (talk) 15:40, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

It's probably intentional, as the manufacturer is founded by a self-admitted science-fiction enthusiast. 217.211.88.20 (talk) 09:53, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

I noticed it too. Here's a similarly named company, manufacturing Ai chips, and the CEO is called Dr. Miles Bennett Dyson. link UPDATE: it was an april fools joke.

i just learnt of the HAL system. it does seem ironic having a helpful peiece of tech named after 2 phsycotic human killing AI's but hey its a great marketing ploy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.91.9.153 (talk) 23:22, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Speed

Does it at all slow the wearer or restrict movement? 24.11.237.69 (talk) 02:36, 29 June 2009 (UTC) i believe the intention is the exact opposite.. although i speculate that its slightly less agile than the average human body.. "Based on the signals obtained, the power unit moves the joint simultaneously with the wearer's muscle movement, supporting the wearer's activities" 88.88.102.171 (talk) 14:28, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: moved to Hybrid Assistive Limb. There seems to be consensus that the article needs moving. WP:AT#Article title format suggests we should use abbreviations so "Hybrid Assistive Limb" seemed the best of the suggestions. Dpmuk (talk) 22:25, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

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HAL 5 → Cyberdyne HAL — multiple versions of the HAL line of suits are covered on this article, not just the HAL5, the HAL3 and the lower limb version are also covered 65.93.12.93 (talk) 10:00, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

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• OK, I agree that we don't want the "5", but is adding "Cyberdyne" the best way to disambiguate this usage of "HAL"? Couldn't we use Hybrid Assistive Limb, or HAL (exoskeleton suit), or something else similarly informative?--Kotniski (talk) 12:29, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

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Roboassess attention needed

Hi

During a Robotics project assessment the article led me to think attention was needed:

• Update
• Copyedit - such as "DailyMail.co.uk" to "the Daily Mail website" or similar, and "some have"

Chaosdruid (talk) 18:19, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

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Requested move 21 January 2024

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The result of the move request was: moved. to Hybrid Assistive Limb per previous RM. (closed by non-admin page mover) Bensci54 (talk) 06:08, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

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HAL (robot) → HAL (suit) – Robots and exoskeletons are very different things, "Robot" is not actually used anywhere in the article outside of general reference to the field of robotics. Orchastrattor (talk) 00:12, 21 January 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. BilledMammal (talk) 06:01, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

A previous move discussion resulted in a move to Hybrid Assistive Limb. There was a subsequent claim that this is no longer the correct title, but the longer version still appears to be in use. The current title probably usually refers to HAL 9000 as in the hatnote (while mainly a computer, the character is also considered a robot, per, for example, the Robot Hall of Fame), so in general another move seems like a good idea. Dekimasuよ! 04:06, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

• Move to Hybrid Assistive Limb per previous RM. HAL (robot) should probably redirect to HAL 9000. 162 etc. (talk) 17:50, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

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