Posted on 06/04/2025 5:41:46 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Every weekend warrior knows the drill — you sit in front of a computer all week, and when the weekend hits, you bike, hike, and run yourself ragged. Your body feels destroyed on Monday. Repeat.
If this sounds like you — or even if you’re a casual exerciser who wants to walk and bike longer distances without getting tired — the future has arrived. The world’s first-ever outdoor exoskeleton, Hypershell X, can help max out your physical abilities with minimal effort.
Hypershell X is causing a buzz among both outdoorsy types and robotics enthusiasts, and it won the Best of Innovation in Robotics award at CES 2025.
The cyborg-looking device fits like a second skin over your legs and provides up to 800 watts of power, helping you raise your legs and increasing strength up to 40 percent. Whether you’re walking, running, cycling, climbing stairs, or mountaineering, the device’s motor utilizes AI to adapt to your movements in real time, intuitively.
Basically, you feel like yourself, only stronger.
The Hypershell X may look like a sci-fi fantasy device, but you’ll barely feel it while you’re wearing it. Just buckle on the "fanny pack", which also houses the removable and rechargeable battery, and the ergonomic hip levers fit down your legs and are secured by soft straps above your knees. Power the device up via the exoskeleton’s one-touch button, and the M-One motor kicks in, reducing your leg’s physical exertion by up to 30 percent.
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Won’t using this weaken your muscles?
This accurate prophesy arrived decades ago.
Even that could be hefty, if you’d done the foolish thing and walk the Appalachian trail.
A solution to everything.
Can help max out your physical abilities with minimal effort.
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Not much good for exercise
That looks very “Starship Troopers!” (The book, not the movie.)
Are these used in the military? Because it sounds like it would come in handy for folks that ruck stuff over a distance.
Maybe I’ll do Everest next year.
And the potential for cyclists is huge. All of a sudden, 100-mile rides are easy.
It weighs about 5 pounds. I imagine you could pack a battery or two.
I think the bigger issue is “long haul” hiking. I don’t think there are chargers on the Appalachian Trail.
You can do Everest on Saturday and K2 on Sunday.
If I could buy a pair of battery-powered AI legs, I could just send them out for my morning walk and save even more effort.
In addition to DARPA developments of which we can certainly imagine...
...somewhere, someone is building a ‘better sex doll’.
Wait until AI applies a muscle cramp to your skeleton.
Wear better fitting shoes?
I can see my son-in-law wanting this.
That’s a huge extra weight on a long multi day trek.
It’s be interesting to see someone do the entire Appalachian Trail with these. Wonder how he’ll fare vs ultralight hikers. The current record is 22 days for 2200 miles.
This is a fully supported trek with a ground team providing food, rest and gear.
Wait for the heart attacks too. The hearts are not going to keep up.
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