The bio-aestronautics application is for it's the sensors for measuring the environment and they're also built in actuators into the mechanical counter pressure suit to help them perform better. Is it possible at one point you'll be putting personal trainers out of work because that data will be uploaded to our AI cloud and it will make those determinations for you? Wow that's crazy. There are people working on it. It's very hard my lab is working on it but it's very difficult. But if you could then it could be like the force. You could go on your app and just change what the human body is doing in response to your wants and needs.
Can you give a robot a sense of touch? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly, learn about soft robotics, sensors, and understanding human physiology with co-founders of Organic Robotics Corp, Professor Robert Shepherd and Ilayda Samilgil.
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