Panfandom p shit. I needed to draw Yes Man, but, it’s so late so I did something simple. My human Yes Man design and modmad’s adorable human WallE design.
huuu, they’re the most adorable android buddies, man.
Yes Man my goodness where are your bishy sparkles
Japan’s Robot Suit Gets Global Safety Certificate
A robot suit that can help the elderly or disabled get around was given its global safety certificate in Japan on Wednesday, paving the way for its worldwide rollout.
The Hybrid Assistive Limb, or HAL, is a power-assisted pair of legs developed by Japanese robot maker Cyberdyne, which has also developed similar robot arms.
A quality assurance body issued the certificate based on a draft version of an international safety standard for personal robots that is expected to be approved later this year, the ministry for the economy, trade and industry said.
The metal-and-plastic exoskeleton has become the first nursing-care robot certified under the draft standard, a ministry official said. Battery-powered HAL, which detects muscle impulses to anticipate and support the user’s body movements, is designed to help the elderly with mobility or help hospital or nursing carers to lift patients.
Cyberdyne, based in Tsukuba, northeast of Tokyo, has so far leased some 330 suits to 150 hospitals, welfare and other facilities in Japan since 2010, at 178,000 yen ($1,950) per suit per year.
“It is very significant that Japan has obtained this certification before others in the world,” said Yoshiyuki Sankai, the head of Cyberdyne.
The company is unrelated to the firm of the same name responsible for the cyborg assassin played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1984 film “The Terminator”.
“This is a first step forward for Japan, the great robot nation, to send our message to the world about robots of the future,” said Sankai, who is also a professor at Tsukuba University.
A different version of HAL — coincidentally the name of the evil supercomputer in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” — has been developed for workers who need to wear heavy radiation protection as part of the clean-up at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
Industrial robots have long been used in Japan, and robo-suits are gradually making inroads into hospitals and retirement homes.
But critics say the government has been slow in creating a safety framework for such robots in a country whose rapidly-ageing population is expected to enjoy ever longer lives.
can we just take a moment to appreciate the phrase ‘the great robot nation’
thank you
can we just take a moment to appreciate they called it ‘HAL’
coincidentally my big fat behind you go guys
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I made this for my friend. Chance who works on da Simpsons as a layout artist. He started a petition so that artists can get residuals from working on stuff and things. Read more about it at unitedwebrand.org
I think it’s a pretty good idea because once you’re laid off you never see anything after the show/project you’re working on aside from unemployment. In light of the layoffs at Dreamworks, Rhythm and Hues and other places where artists are kind of left hanging with nothing it sure would have been nice if they had seen some of the cut after the fact. writers get residuals so why not us?
anyway. blablaba it’s worth a try. an ol’ college try. nyuk nyuk
plugging-over
Signed and support this 100%!!!
Everyone needs to sign this. Even if you aren’t in the industry. If you know artists of any kind or enjoy the work they create, sign it. Do you like movies or cartoons or comics? SIGN IT!
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some commissions im working on! still open for more! :)
was to tired to draw last night, had figuredrawing right after work, came home around 10pm or so, ate something and played with cat (caus he had been alone aaalll day long) and died in bed!
and only to wake up at like 6.30 in the morning…i dont know whyy, i never set my alarm until 7.50 dammit :(
Guys guys look at my friend’s super keen drawing skills look
when i erase a word with a pencil where does it go
are you okay
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