Monday, May 19, 2008

Robotic suit that enhances strength Thing of future?

There is a suit called the "Exoskeleton" that is robotic and can amplify your strength and endurance by up to 20 times. Rex Jameson a 5 foot 11 180 pound engineer for the company Sarcos inc. in Salt Lake City is lucky if he presses 200 pounds but once when he tried it in the suit he easily did 500!The company is currently under contract with the army. The army believes that soldiers may one day wear suits similar to this one in combat.
But right now the suit is being used for such as loading or unloading cargo or repairing heavy equipment. Sarcos has a two-year contract with the army worth up to $10 million. But before soldiers can even test the suit Sarcos must first work out some last minuet bugs such as the sort battery life which only lasts thirty minuets.

I think that this is a great start to the world of robotics and A.I because it shows that metal can improve a humans physical attributes such as strength and endurance. I hope that they can get this suit in somewhat of a working order because the uses for it are endless you could use it for almost anything even the army, lets first use for good then if need be use it against evil.

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