Video: Army Tests ‘HULC’ Super-Strength Gear, No Gamma Rays Allowed
The Army is moving one small step closer to giving its troops super-strength. Lockheed's Human Universal Load Carrier exoskeleton is headed to the Army's Natick Soldier Systems Center for biomechanical...
View ArticleReal-Life Iron Man Outfit Hyped in New Video
The DVD of Iron Man 2 hits stores this week. And by utter, complete coincidence, one of the actors involved in the hero flick found his way to the Salt Lake City test lab of Raytheon Sarcos, checked...
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Exoskeletons Walk the Floor at Army’s D.C. Expo [Updated]
“Hey,” an officer asks his friends as they stroll by the men wearing exoskeletons, “you guys like robots?” It’s a salient question at this year’s Washington, D.C., conference of the Association of the...
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Air Force’s Robotic Bags Will Pack Themselves
The Air Force is sick of packing the military’s crap. So it’s starting to contract it out — to robots. The Air Force is responsible for lugging around the rest of the military’s gear. Pallets are the...
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Darpa Underwear Will ‘Harvest’ Soldiers’ Energy, Give Them Killer Abs
Soldiers: Your underwear of the future will do more than prevent crotch rot. It'll protect you from injuries, monitor your vitals and even "harvest" your energy. That is, if a new project from Darpa's...
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Exoskeleton Legs Promise Superhero Strength
Filmmaker and exoskeleton enthusiast James Cameron must be beside himself right now. RB3D’s Hercule exoskeleton legs will soon be available to help humans lift heavy items — and possibly fight off...
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Combat Exoskeleton Marches Toward Afghanistan Deployment
Inside of the year, a Lockheed-built exoskeleton could be headed to Afghanistan for combat trials. That's right: mecha-soldiers are potentially months away from becoming a front-line reality. The post...
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This 3D-Printed Exoskeleton Could One Day Turn You Into a Cyborg
For years, the military has worked on exoskeletons to help turn soldiers into heavy-lifting cyborgs. Now with the first civilian exoskeleton manufactured using a 3-D printer, the budding robosuit...
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Science Stunts: Can Creating a Spectacle Pay Off?
It's been a wacky week in science. First there was that computer that supposedly passed the Turing test, a 50-year old benchmark in artificial intelligence research. Then, yesterday, a paralyzed boy in...
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Powered Exoskeletons Could Replace Wheelchairs One Day
Ekso Bionics is making exoskeletons for paraplegics—and one day, these exoskeletons could render wheelchairs obsolete. The post Powered Exoskeletons Could Replace Wheelchairs One Day appeared first on...
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