Neither the BLEEX of the imitation Battlemech impressed me. The BLEEX just stumped around slowly, and the 'Mech failed to inspire anything but the minor sense of awe you get when you see any large project like that, regardless of actual success; i.e. it is a significant outpouring of engineering resources, but to what end? When I first read about it, I thought it actually walked. It just sort of shuffles around painfully slowly.
The site with all the black and white photographs is interesting but I think the information about the cyborg arm is a little off; as was stated earlier Hardiman was the name of the GE hydraulic exoskeleton for heavy industrial work; and the guy in the photo is actually "teaching" the arm with a teaching aid; the hand at the end looks too human; unlike the one in the next photo... He's probably teaching the arm so someone else can use it... (You "teach" or program robot arms with a mock-up device called a "teaching pendant") I've seen such cyber-arms before and in fact they're very old, relatively speaking, one shown in an old Popular Mechanics from the 1960s had a screw-jack in it and was quite powerful from mechanical advantage. More recently someone was fitted with *two* cyber arms that were surprisingly quick in action!
Oh, and for feck's sake turn your pop-up blocker to maximum before you click on Colt's link, I blocked like 6 before one got through on medium. High, of course, catces about 99% of them.
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