Video: GM And NASA Create Real Life POWER GLOVE. Wield Responsibly!

GM and NASA have teamed-up to create the real life Power Glove. A technology so fierce you’ll finally be able to beat the piss out of that Test Your Strength machine at the local burger joint.

Hit the jump for video and details.

Jalopnik:

First, GM and NASA built the humanoid  Robonaut. Now, the two have teamed up again to create a Human Grasp Assist device. The K-Glove, a.k.a, Robo-Glove, a.k.a. a real-life Nintendo Power Glove, gives the user the power of robots. You could be like  The Wizard. In space! And not horrible! And without Fred Savage! How bad is that?

NASA and GM may seem like a strange mashup until you remember that both are trying to find ways to accomplish their tasks without the use of pesky humans. This desire to push our fleshy masses out of the job of building cars or conducting experiments originally manifested itself in the form of  Robonaut 2  – the creepy gold space man who looks vaguely like a Daft Punk groupie.

Since public pressure and current technological limitations/cost benefits make a full transition  from  human workers to robots difficult in the short term, both NASA and GM are doing the smart thing by turning human workers  into  robots.

GM says the  Robo-Glove  can augment human strength and reduce repetitive stress injury by grasping objects with an additional ten pounds of force.