Real Life Iron Man!

[Kaido]

Awesome

My childhood dreams of being in Exosquad will surely come to life now

 

[eplebnista]

Interesting article.

 

[EGGO]

I remember this. There was a neat video that demonstrated it. Amazing how easily the guy could just lift ammo boxes with one hand with no effort at all.

 

[ViviTheMage]

this is pretty old, but man its amazing.

 

[takeru]

its like one step closer to marines from starcraft

 

[The Boston Dangler]

although this has obvious potential for construction and other tasks, i doubt we'll ever see a weaponized version.

1. cost - price isn't described at all in the article, but you know it's astronomical.

2. protection - you could armor this thing until it couldn't move, and it will still be defeated by cheap and plentiful weapons in use today.

3. purpose - are you going to put a cannon on it? dumb. room-to-room fighting? no way. as long as there's a person moving his legs back and forth, top speed and mobility will be a lot less than a horse, much less a jeep. the only effective role (ignoring cost) i can think of is riot control.

any thread about powered exoskeletons would be worthless without mentioning the palladium sci-fi/fantasy/horror/whatever rpg "rifts". where else can you battle cthulu with 50 foot tall robots?

http://www.palladiumbooks.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitter_Boy

 

[0roo0roo]

now you just need to cover it with gundanium