I was a bit surprised because I had never heard of that research group, but apparently they are not from the engineering department, but from media design.
Here is some more Info, if anyone is curious. But it seems more like a concept paper, than an extra prototype.
I can think of another demographic that would like this…
It’s Japan, we all know what they really invented it for. But they needed something acceptable to put on the grant application
Can I… uhhm… get one too? Maybe a little more fluffy? Ohh, and it would be nice if it could wag too… U know… Just for… uhhm… balancing purposes…
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Theres a few companies that make moving tails (and wings) for a few hundred USD, but they tend to be waitless rather than designed for balancing
what about the added weight of the tail? I dont believe elderly got good knees
Yeah we should make it more like the rear-half of a centaur
It remeber me an painting of Patrick Woodroffe
They got the guy three sets of robohands but couldn’t figure out some mechanolegs for him?
Same for this Tail, there are better system to solve postural problems, walking difficulties and other physical issues. How will you simply sit down with this tail? Or precisely in Japan, entering in an Subway with it? They often invent overcomplicated solutions without need, for easy to solve problems, above solving it only tangential and even adding more problems.
Just a pitch: Tail can easily be detached and works as a walking cane.
I do petty every physically sensative individual that has to take overcrowded public transport though
Tails only cars. Obviously. Perfectly economical solution to tack a whole other car for the rich people with theriandroid tails to have space.
Oh goodness, it’s mounted to his HIP. At first glance I thought this was a whole other level of parody product lmao.
Future cosplay is going to be lit.
Is this a return to monke meme made manifest?
Make it a monkey tail and I could pull off a decent vegetable cosplay.
honestly the best posture advice I have ever gotten is to sit like I have a tail (you would have to tilt your hips forward and stick your butt out behind you to put the tail up behind you rather than curling your tailbone under such that you’d be sitting on the tail).
Nobody wants to do that because men are thirsty.
true as a man, they thirst for my booty when all I care for is good back posture
Hahahaha insert of the day 😂
I’m not sitting improperly… It’s the patriarchy!
As a five five man I can assure you that I do do this and the only ones thirsty for that are my cats seeking ont my blood.
I have a feeling a completely different audience has a definite interest. They would just cover it in the same fur as the rest of their costume.
I was hoping for research into genetically adding one to a human, but I’ll.take this.
You already have the nerves there, and it’s quite trivial to connect them to a neurotransmitter, especially since the patent expired.
Comes later.
Can’t we just find a way to upgrade the earth animals instead?
We can have real furries that way
Upgrade?
Have we even seriously tried opening dialogue with elephant or whale tribes?
I know we jacked off a bunch of dolphins we raised in captivity, but, like… Did we send anthropologists anf linguists?
Just because we could talk to a whale wouldn’t make them a furry. They need to be anthropoidal to be a furry.
I said upgrade.
Let’s make their bodies more enjoyable for us to see. If we never meet aliens, let’s make them.
And gave them LSD! Funded by NASA.
looks more like a scorpion tail.
Yup. That’s the most cost-effctive solution to the elderly falling problem. Trust me there is no other reason we are doing this.
Money for elderly that can prevent them from needing very expensive nursing home care is a huge market with no limit if the product works well. Especially for Japan but really everywhere will have increasingly large cohorts of their elderly people with not enough young people to care for them.
My dreams of kick boxing like a kangaroo may finally come truee
Imagine working in a retirement home and one day one of the residents tells you “I am taking part in this clinical trial” and then she comes back as Doctor fucking Octopus.
I just want a third arm, is that too much to ask? Imagine how many tasks would be easier with that.
Say a prayer to the Four-Armed Emperor.
Fuck. Yes. Id make so many comments about killing spider man.
Finally something to balance the enormous mass I have in front.
If you have an erection lasting more than four hours please contact your doctor.
He’ll probably be pretty impressed and offer a high five.
But how will I then hang my coat?
on your mecha tail, duh
Now if it can stab people and drain them of their bioenergy, I can reach my final form!
I’m supposed to be cleaning but now I’m laughing too hard imagining some “saturday morning cartoon” tokusatsu show about a squad of mecha-grandmas.
tokusatsu
What does this word mean?
It encompasses a few genres of live action japanese tv/movies but I was thinking like power rangers/super sentai.
Tonight on Lifetime-Japan, Speed Walkers - A motley crew of septuagenarians must defeat the evil doer, osteoarthritis man, else they will be forced to deal with painful joints! Can these grizzled grandmas come out victorious? Tune in to find out!
