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Powered Exoskeletons In The Near Future?

Posted by Hemos on Wednesday January 16, 2002 @11:46AM from the zeon-here-i-come dept.

PhReaKyDMoNKeY writes "Discover Magazine's latest issue has a story about powered exoskeletons and how they aren't terribly far off. Sounds pretty damn cool, except maybe for the centaur flatbed model. Screw a Segway, gimme one of these babies."

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Re:"Aliens" exoskeleton by Wheaty18 · 2002-01-16 11:57 · Score: 2, Informative

Heh, it's pretty cool how they actually did the Exoskeleton thing in Aliens . Apparently they got some big strong muscle dude to be on the 'inside' of the suit (no joke), Ripley just had to stand in the thing.