Comments on: Exoskeleton Update

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:51:15 +0000

I think it would be good for breaching,and carrying supplies in combat.If worst comes to worst and you have to go silent I wonder how it would perform.

By: delpin

delpin — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:09:39 +0000

There is more updates, video and pics on the exoskeleton project at TacticalWarfighter
http://www.tacticalwarfightergear.com/tacticalgear/catalog/soldier_exoskeleton.php

By: niels

niels — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:31:05 +0000

well ppl look at the new iron man and see the future !
this battle suit mr stark has is both flexible and durable in fact we have the tech to make it its all about to join forces all can bebifit from this technology besides the stuff Posted by: stephen russell at September 6, 2008 09:35 AM there is also applications for new sorts of hardspace suits able to cope whith radiation and gamma rays out there ;D OPEN YOUR MIND !!!

By: Rozinante2

Rozinante2 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:23:29 +0000

You want a lifter, get a lifter.
You want a loader, get a loader.
You want transit, get a bike or an ATV.
They seem to want this thing to do everything a guy can do, but stronger, faster — Wah-hoo. This is the ultimate in a work scope gone wild.
It mey be possible, but the R&D time will probably approach the R&D time it took to produce the soldier himself — figure on a few million years.
In the mean time, buy the loader, the lifter, or the bike. They work now, for a lot less cash.

By: Power Bill

Power Bill — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:59:06 +0000

One other use for this technology is to make a humanoid robot, an android. It is much easier to teach a machine by giving it examples than by a room of engineers sitting at desks and trying to describe theoretical movements for hypothetical situations that may never happen in real life.
Here the tasks are being performed successfully by the guy in the suit so the data coming in is real and the responses to feedback stimuli are human intuitive. Having a puter mimic by such methods as artificial neural networks and cybernetic fuzzy logic is a lot simpler than having it try to understand and plan every increment of every little actuator…
If you are going to remove the human from the suit you will not want to replace it with a multimillion dollar fragile and energy intensive puter of the same weight. If you have a handful of grunts do a dozen tasks a hundred times in the suit the data extracted will be priceless. I say good on the US military for persevering in this research. It will immediately make a stable platform for versatile drones to prove both Minsky _and_ Heinlein wrong!

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:47:54 +0000

Ok, you caught me. I cannot distinguish the Army from the Navy.
And ok, the suit is a bad idea. The concept of being able to go up a set of stairs and get shot 10 times with an AK-47 in the legs; face; chest; have a grenade go off next to you; and not worry about it is a crazy thing to want.
And body armor is a bad idea too, it just slows you down.
And helmets get in the way and will not stop a direct hit anyway.

By: reshtet

reshtet — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:59:43 +0000

O oh,I’m onto your signal path!You are using a certain signal that doesn’t do anything unless I
go somewhere else,and you bump it from strategypage to here,where my new posts don’t appear on the pages.…Hot links…I would think
it’s a wiccan…

By: reshtet

reshtet — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:46:37 +0000

E2-E4 in the NAVY isn’t PFC at all!It’s an ARMY
rank/paygrade…This proves a whole lot stupid things here…

By: Wiccanwolf

Wiccanwolf — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:34:49 +0000

Still I believe the exoskeleton if properly debugged will be the combat suit of tomorrow. I have watched Robotech and played a few of the Mech Warrior games, read Heinline and other sci-fi authors. We could see in the next 15–20 years,the development of those.
I can fore see special units at first being fast strike Ranger and Marine units using them to go after terrorists. Can you inagine a guy in a exo-battle suit wielding a 30mm cannon like it is an M-16 and taking out some al-Queda punks?
Lovely image of that.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:19:28 +0000

Sorry for the repost, new computer/browser.…