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company most noted for the marketing and distribution of the

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suit.

History

Cyberdyne was founded on June 24, 2004, by Yoshiyuki Sankai, a professor at the

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, as a venture company to develop his ideas for an exoskeleton suit. The name is the same as a fictional company from the '' Terminator'' film series, which also produces robots. The name, however, is not necessarily a reference, but from the new academic fields of "Cybernetics", and the suffix "-dyne", referring to power. That being said, during an interview between Sankai and

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, director of ''

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'', Sankai admits that he likes the Terminator franchise as well as '' 2001: A Space Odyssey''. In early 2009, Cyberdyne attracted international

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attention with the announcement that it would be marketing and distributing the

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(Hybrid Assistive Limb)

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, which they claim augments body movement and increases user strength by up to ten times. As of February 2013, Cyberdyne has leased 330 HAL suits to 150 facilities across Japan, and HAL has been given a global safety certification that should allow it to be distributed outside Japan. In 2017 March,

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of Saudi Arabia signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Cyberdyne Inc. in order to assist the victims of traumatic

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