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    Yoshiyuki Sankai (L), Tsukuba University Professor and president of the robotic venture Cyberdyne displays the newly developed robot-suit "HAL" (Hybrid Assistive Limb), produced by Cyberdyne at the company's new R and D center at Tsukuba city in Ibaraki prefecture, suburban Tokyo on October 7, 2008. Sankai and Cyberdyne company will launch its mass production on October 10 of the robot suit which enables to forsee user's motion and to assist gait disorder persons or aged people . AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO (Photo credit should read YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)