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Muscle Suit Tokyo Exoskeleton Power Workout
Sometimes a muscle suit would come in handy - admit it. Like you're on the last rep in a set of ten and you just need that bar to go a bit higher...
(Tokyo University Muscle Suit)
Alas, it still needs an external compressor and air regulation system; nevertheless, we're slowly getting closer to those fighting exoskeletons we're going to need.
Like the NAFTA power-armor from Bruce Sterling's 1999 novel A Good Old-Fashioned Future:
He'd come down from the heavens in his full NAFTA military power-armor, a leaping, brick-busting, lightning-spewing exoskeleton, all acronyms and input jacks. It was powerful, elaborate gear, of an entirely different order than the gooey and fibrous street tech of the two urban intrusion freaks...
(Read more about the power-armor exoskeleton)
Don't miss the latest in exoskeleton news:
- RI-MAN And Roujin-Z Robots: Elder Care Fact And Fiction
In the demonstration, a researcher orders RI-MAN to pick up a woman. "The woman on the bed?" asks the robot. - HAL-5 Exoskeleton To Carry Mountain Climber
It will now help cary a Japanese quadtiplegic to the top of a moutain. - BLEEX: Robotic Exoskeleton Making Strides
Designed to help foot soldiers carry more supplies for longer distances
Via CrunchGear.
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