Researchers designed a robotic backpack that gives you extra limbs

Move over, Doc Ock.
By Emmett Smith  on 
A man wearing a robotic backpack with four robot arms
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Running, jumping, and flying: welcome to the future of robotics.


Designed by KIMLAB and nicknamed the PAPRAS: Backpack after KIMLAB’s Plug And Play Robotic Arm System, the backpack features four arms and is controlled by the user's upper body movements demonstrating the expansion of the user's physical abilities with extra limbs.

Topics Robotics


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