Posted on 06/13/2011 1:10:55 AM PDT by jmcenanly
DARPA Z-man program will develop biologically inspired climbing aids to enable soldiers to scale vertical walls constructed from typical building materials, without using ropes or ladders. Geckos, spiders and small animals are the inspiration behind these climbing aids.
Nanopatents and innovations - In 2010, DARPA demonstrated a fully loaded soldier (300 lb) wearing reattachable pads (magnets and microspines) scaling a series of 25-foot walls built from mission-relevant materials using Z-Man technology.
In 2011, DARPA began the transition of Z-Man prototype technologies (magnets and microspines) to the Armed Services.
Draper is a not-for-profit research and development laboratory focused on the design, development, and deployment of advanced technological solutions for our nations most challenging and important problems in security, space exploration, healthcare, and energy. They have a staff of about 1400 and have been developing the Z-man project.
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That’s where the chameleon-type camouflage skin suit comes into play.
The tango has no idea the SEAL is there until he gets zapped by a huge sticky tongue and yanked headfirst into the gapping maw...
No wait...
Most good FPS players know to look up. Some of them because that’s where I like to rocket them from. :D
I can see great potential for this among painters and window washers.
Maybe we can get out M4’s to sound like belching frogs.
apart from the frogs.... since when was DARPA a not for profit...oh that makes it sound sooo commercially loving and honorable, even if they spell it darper.... like it sort of a private not for profit charity.....
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
“Commissions advanced research for DoD. It was founded in response to the surprise Sputnik launch in 1958 and fathered the Internet somewhere along the way.”
www.darpa.mil/
Point.
There is probably a market with all the rock climbers out there.
Draper is a separate entity that is working with DARPA on this project. It, not DARPA, is the not profit to which the article refers.
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