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A backpack harness with four robotic arms

DESIGN FICTION

“Claw” Robotic Limb Harness

How might robotics and AI give us extra limbs?

The subject

Subject

How might we gain extra limbs with robotics and AI?

Signals

Robotic Limbs
AI

Timeframe

2025
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More about the signals

The speculation

THE FUTURE SCENARIO

Supernumerary robotic limbs could utilise both limb mimicry and predictive AI to copy the actions of our human arms or to predict what extra help we might need.

Not only might they give use extra limbs to improve productivity and creativity, they could give limbs to those who lost limbs or were born without them.

Four robotic arms connected to a power harness

The DESIGN FICTION

Titan’s Claw© Robotic Limb Harness is a new generation of supernumerary robotic limbs that enhance your ability, productivity, and creativity.

Medium

Digital mock up
Web Page
Illustrative storification

Values*

Transhumanism
Abled

*Future Scouting aims to champion values during futuring to ensure we are always fostering our preferred futures.

1. Digital Mock Up

The Double Claw—using human-limb mimicry and pre-emptive assistance, the Double Claw is the ultimate in productivity for both human and android workers.

The Single Claw—using human-limb mimicry, the 2-Claw enhances worker productivity

A promotional web page for the claw harness

2. Future Web Page

A promotional product web page from “Titan”, a fictional future transhumanist technology company, to use a marketing lens as a means of generating new use cases and product detail.

Titan’s Claw© Robotic Limb Harness is designed to assist in situations where your inherent arms are already utilised. The Claw can hold something in place, perform complimentary tasks that require dexterity, and speed up the completion of labour-intensive tasks.
Titan’s new-generation RLH uses two or four robotic arms mounted on your back, and can be controlled by shoulder gestures, voice commands and mimicry of your natural actions.
Advanced robotics affords greater strength, dexterity and agility.

The sci-fi novel Amanojaku

3. Storified as a feature concept in the sci-fi novel Amanojaku

Amanojaku, by Damien Lutz, is set in a not-too-distant future inhabited by intelligent androids and transhumanists—people incorporating technology into their bodies to enhance and evolve their human experience.

A young man working in his workshop while wearing a harness with pair of robotic arms

A young Finn develops a working prototype for AI-enabled robotic limbs to help him work faster.

Four robotic arms connected to a power harness

Finn sells his invention to Titan, the transhumanist technology company who improve and innovate the robotic limb harness.

A worker in overalls wearing a harness with two pairs of robotic limbs

Andre Cross, the protagonist in Amanojaku, wears his robotic limb harness…

A worker swinging through the branches of the vertical farm using his robotic limb harness

As he slaves away in the vertical farms owned by Titan.

Robotic limbs helping an artist
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