![]() "From our role-playing sessions, we found that our bodies could precisely sense the attachment/detachment of arms, and we especially felt a strong impact when detaching or reducing the number of robotic arms worn," it continues. "This novel is obviously a work of fiction, yet, half a century since its writing, emerging human-machine integration technologies have begun to allow us to physically experience Kawabata’s world," the team wrote in a recently published paper about the system. The team was inspired by a 1963 short story written by Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata in which a girl decides to lend her suitor one of her arms for the night. "The system was designed to enable social interaction between multiple wearers, such as an exchange of arm(s), and explore possible interactions between digital cyborgs in a cyborg society," reads the company's website. Jizai's stated goals are quite a bit more abstract than simply having the arms pick up objects. ![]()
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