We were sold on (and slightly terrified of) the Sarcos XOS exoskeleton from the moment we first saw it show off its superhuman capabilities
on video late last year, but if you just can't get enough of it you'll definitely want to hit up the ever-dependable Popular Science, which has now totally blown things out with the full story behind the suit, complete with some great new pics of it. As if that wasn't enough, the piece also includes some tidbits about some of Sarcos' future plans, including word that the Army plans to begin field-testing the XOS by 2009, and that the company intends to kick off a new research program this summer tasked with developing a new generator that'll be capable of powering the suit for "hours at a time." Of course, there's plenty more in the six-page feature that we're unable to sum up here, so be sure to hit up the link below for the full story.
posted April 11th 2008 5:04PM
Crysis. =)
Question.....Why don't we have research in Mech's yet? I was watching the Anime series Gasaraki the other day. The practical use for a Mechs in urban warfare seems like it would be a powerful tool.
That was very Dwight.
I think this one from Japan looks WAY more advanced
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSP46lWvxJ4
developed by Cyberdine industries...
... we're all doomed
yea... until it moves when it wasn't supposed to move and they cancel the whole program.
LOL Sarcos is my family name =P
If you consider the future applications this has, it is limitless. Although you dont get the muscle training for using this exo-skeleton, but no matter how muc you train you can't lift what it can (well unless one of those bodybuilding champions lol). Imagine for the elderly having troubles doing their daily rountine chores, military apps, even as simple as for industrial purposes
What if they let people use these in the Olympics?
Then again, China would probably poison them with lead :)
Nice.
HAL-5 seems much more advanced, useful, and practical.
I can imagine some poor bugger wearing this working late thus being a bit sleepy then scratching his nuts.
In any industry involving heavy lifting these things will be a huge boon. And Hal-5 looks far better.
useless unless made of GUNDANIUM
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its easy to see how things will progress, first we get the exo suites on, but then we depend on them, they bioengineer them into us, but still we are limited, so finally, when your born, they put your brain in a robot.
part man. part machine. all cop.
This will be very useful in the future when battling a 2 story tall alien in a cargo bay of a space ship. Or when gunning down sentinels on a dock. Can't decide which I'd like to see first.
The suit is cool, but the focus on Iron Man was a bit much. Especially when the military has stated that they want to become more like the Mobile Infantry from Heinlein's Starship Troopers (the book that started the power armor genre.) Look it up on Wikipedia, a high-ranking Marine general stated that the Mobile Infantry is what the Corps needs to be in the future.
For those that have only seen the movie: In the book, the MI wore eight-foot tall suits of power-armor that let them lift literally tons of weight, protected them from all but anti-tank weaponry, had a jump system that let them 'bounce' over buildings and deploy from orbit, and carried weapons ranging from a 'flamer' that acts more like a variable-aperture plasma weapon, all the way to miniature nuclear warheads.
Typical Americans. What is crippling your efforts overseas is a desparate shortage of simple language and cultural skills (like being able to speak Arabic and understand who is and is not an insurgent) and also basic soldiering skills (like knowing how to deal with a situation other than calling in a 2000lb bomb on the nearest hut), but here you are making big toys as usual.