18 Apr
US Army builds a robo-suit
A forum post today alerted me to a BBC news article about how the US Army has built a “robo-suit.” That is, a metal exoskeleton that is designed to be worn by humans as a helper for heavy lifting tasks and other such things. It is, of course, in the proto-type stages, but that “the US military expects to take delivery of these early prototypes next year, and hopefully deploy some refined versions within eight years.”
Of course, when I first watched the brief video clip displayed with the news article, all I could think about was the film Aliens. And can you blame me?
Remember this?
And now check out this still I grabbed from the news video:
Srsly.
