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Art Center Pasadena student Jake Loniak has taken everything that is cool about
exoskeletons and motorcycles and crammed it into this Yamaha-branded
Deus Ex Machina concept motorcycle. The vehicle is powered by ultra-capacitors and doped nano-phoshpate batteries (similar to the ones currently used in hybrid cars) and it is controlled using 36 pneumatic muscles with two linear actuators set along a spine consisting of seven artificial vertebrae. Even the helmet is pneumatically attached.
![Deus_Loniak_Rear Deus_Loniak_Rear](http://gizmodo.com/assets/images/gallery/4/2008/05/smallish_2514440449_8067547910_o.jpg)
![Deus_Loniak_Diving Deus_Loniak_Diving](http://gizmodo.com/assets/images/gallery/4/2008/05/smallish_2514440501_dfe779c5a5_o.jpg)
If constructed, the designer believes that it could achieve a top speed of 75mph (0-60mph in 3 seconds) with a recharge time of 15 minutes and cycle time of one hour. We may never know if that is true, but I say throw some sort of storage compartment on this thing and let's find out. [
Art Center Pasadena via
Hell For Leather]
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