Raytheon Exoskeleton brings 'Iron Man' to life

EE Times ^ | 05/02/2008 | R. Colin Johnson

[Alas Babylon!]

1988 Atlanta DNC “Sex Romp Video” Convention?

Wasn’t that Rob Lowe?

[Erasmus]

One noisy feedback pot and it'll you break you like a toothpick.

<}B^), I think.

[Xenalyte]

Which I can’t figure out, considering Eric Bana starred in a Hulk movie like two years ago.

[DBrow]

Maybe! I just re-read Haldeman’s “The Forever War”, they had (will have in the future) exoskeleton vacuum suits with more bells and whistles than you could imagine.

I liked Ripley’s cargo handler’s exoskeleton. The prop people put in wear and tear, and it just looked like Caterpillar or similar, right down to the controls.

[skinkinthegrass]

Wasn’t that Rob Lowe?.....I guess, it was

[Amendment10]

As a side note, I saw an Army(?) documentary about this technology years ago, perhaps on the Military Channel. A robotic, back-pack carrying unit was attached to a GI who was walking around with it. The robot connected to the GI with leg braces, the braces not only actually supporting the weight of the back-pack and keeping things in balance regarding the walking motion, but also acting as the steering wheel for the robot, the leg-braces tracking the motion of the GI's legs. Regardess of the weight of the back-pack and robotic unit, the GI was said to have been feeling only about five pounds of weight.

The only thing that I thought was clumsy about the robot is that it was power by a gas engine above the back-pack near the GI's shoulders, if I remember correctly.

Also, the robot in the documentary was a plain Jane, not the flashy, Hollywood-type robots that I see in the picts.

[Ransomed]

SABBATH!!! Heavy boots of lead fills his victims full of dread!!!

Fregards

[Mr. Blond]

Well, that Hulk movie was pretty bad, so Marvel is making another one the right way. After that apparently is a Thor movie, and then the X-men spin-offs.

[uglybiker]

So whose next?

Sea Man!