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Re:Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk by modeless on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @01:18PM (#27974954)
One issue is safety. A powered exoskeleton with any significant fraction of a human's full strength necessarily has the power to maim people including the operator. A robot can just be put in a cage where it can't hurt people, but an exoskeleton can't.
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Re:Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk by zeteo on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @01:27PM (#27975071)
> A robot can just be put in a cage where it can't hurt people, but an exoskeleton can't.

This would have made a great premise for an Asimov story.

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Re:Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk by justnotworthit on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @02:08PM (#27975568)
A robot poses as an exoskeleton to escape captivity?
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