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Human Augmentation · Recorded milestone

Nerve-signal exoskeleton

Recorded year2008

Cyberdyne's HAL suit reads faint nerve signals on the skin to power its legs and is leased to Japanese hospitals and care homes.

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No connections of this kind are recorded.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.