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This is kind of interesting...wasn't the initial application for the robotic suits in "Surrogates" military as well? And didn't they also start out looking decidedly less human than the later civilian-model surrogates? Life imitating art, imitating life, imitating art, imitating life...? Wiki • Attitude • FAQThe Nexian • Nexus Research • The OHTIn New York, we wrote the legal number on our arms in marker...To call a lawyer if we were arrested. In Istanbul, People wrote their blood types on their arms. I hear in Egypt, They just write Their names. גם זה יעבור
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This is something I've been following for a long time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered_exoskeletonThanks for the update on it! The Japanese have had a working civilian model for some time, but Sarcos' work is definitely the forefront of this emerging technology. I'm surprised it's been taking so long though. I believe they both work on the principle of anticipating nerve signals from your limbs, but there's a related technology in the works that receives those signal directly from the brain:
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I hate how the article attributes the concept to Stan Lee, since Heinlein conceptualized this in great detail when he wrote "Starship Troopers" in 1959: Quote:Our suits give us better eyes, better ears, stronger backs (to carry heavier weapons and more ammo), better legs, more intelligence (in the military meaning...), more firepower, greater endurance, less vulnerability.
A suit isn't a space suit - although it can serve as one. it is not primarily armor - although the Knights of the Round Table were not armored as well as we are. It isn't a tank - but a single M.I. [Mobile Infantry] private could take on a squadron of those things and knock them off unassisted...
...Suited up, you look like a big steel gorilla, armed with gorilla-sized weapons.
The real genius in the design is that you don't have to control the suit; you just wear it, like your clothes, like skin.
The secret lies in negative feedback and amplification.
From Starship Troopers, by Robert Heinlein.
Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1959
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