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5 Bionic Exoskeleton Suits of the Future

environmentalgraffiti.com — As the old saying goes: the suit makes the man. Never will this maxim resonate so well, than when referring to bionic exoskeleton suits. They ’ll not only make you the man, they’ll make you superhuman.

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  • mentol, on 05/06/2008, -5/+5ha : so this is what an exoskeleton is ?
  • alllo, on 05/06/2008, -3/+3Yeaah... I have always dreamt to have a suit of Robocop or Batman....May be in future my dreams will come true))))
    • SirPopper, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3What will you do then with the Exoskeleton Suits, when you have bought it?
    • SuperWinner, on 05/06/2008, -1/+2You really dream of having your brain torn out and stuck in a robot? Odd.
      • Ademan, on 05/06/2008, -0/+5I'd have my brain put in a robot body... who wouldn't? Course, i'd get all the use I could out of my human body first...
    • SymbolicChaos, on 05/06/2008, -0/+4SirPopper: Obviously the man wants to become a super hero (or villain). Who doesn't, really?
      SuperWinner: Asimov might contest that robots dream of having their brains torn out and stuck into fleshy human meat every now and then, and clearly, they are the superior existence. What would we do without our robot masters? All hail our bionic overlords.
  • mareacaspica, on 05/06/2008, -7/+2finally, an advantage of iron man type of movies
  • skewl, on 05/06/2008, -3/+11that's insane.. just imagine the possibilities... the future is closer than we think :)
    • degron, on 05/06/2008, -0/+27Yeah the future will be here in a sec.
      • jsd8cc, on 05/06/2008, -0/+13Damnit...I always just miss it.
        • Tonorific, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1when they develop an exoskelton for your eyelids you can stop blinking and missing the future
    • SirPopper, on 05/06/2008, -1/+3Maybe the future is alright there and we do not see i!
    • leerayIG88, on 05/06/2008, -0/+4Soon, this will be like Unreal Tournament. Xan Kriegor will be created.
    • RealmDown, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1Honey! You missed the future! turnaround, turn AROUND!

      WHY won't you ever ask for directions when I tell you?

  • socialpyramid, on 05/06/2008, -2/+9That landwalker is totally Robotech
    • Existenz87, on 05/06/2008, -0/+6The land walker doesn't really seem to walk per se. It seems to brake one wheel underneath one of its large feet and free up the other wheel and slide it forward. I think "landshuffler" is a more appropriate term. Still very cool though.
      • snagra, on 05/06/2008, -0/+5Yea, it must be very hard for it to move over anything that isn't a smooth surface, like if there were large rocks or boulders in the way.
      • SantafromNorth, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2DARPA needs to develop the AT-AT but make sure it is trip cable proof :)
    • PopcornDave, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1They're interesting but aren't they all still subject to things like trip wires just like regular humans are? I mean the land walker could easily have it's legs tangled and be immobilized. At least with the others you've got hands to free yourself.
  • tbk123, on 05/06/2008, -3/+9Wow forget battlefields - this could be fun in the bedroom.
    • bdkvxd, on 05/06/2008, -1/+1non stop thrusting = first male multiple orgasm
      • wvdavis, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1First male multiple orgasm??? Maybe for you.
      • PopcornDave, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3I don't even want to think about the chafe you'd be enjoying.
    • DemonWasp, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1Crushed pelvises are fun?
  • dildoolielly, on 05/06/2008, -14/+3How come Al Qaida has 100 masterminds and the GOP hasn't got even one?
    • insanebrain, on 05/06/2008, -0/+11Because, they are like you. .. posting in the wrong thread.
    • rogersj3, on 05/06/2008, -2/+3Irrelevant comment is irrelevant.
    • BXRWXR, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1Way to go, tard.
  • dropthehammer, on 05/06/2008, -8/+18buried for being a blatant attempt to both diggwhore and raise page views by making you view 5 different pages to read the article. Maybe if this site actually wrote relevant environmental content it wouldn't have to constantly post "Top 5 things relating to technology/history/pretty much anything except the environment" to stay alive. Just change your name to "crap we think you'll digg" already.
    • SirPopper, on 05/06/2008, -1/+7Dunno which site you have opened, but I have never seen so many posts from Environmental Graffiti where
      "Top 5 things relating to technology/history/pretty much anything except the environment" were posted.
      Also I do not understand why you think that this post is only for traffic generation.
      People are working hard to write good posts, then people like you come and tell that it is crap.
      That is not nice.
      Links to other blogs or science posts shows the trustworthiness of the author for proving what he wrote!
      There are so many sites with so many amazing stories on the web, I understand the Environmental Graffiti Blog as a small aggreggat, where I can get impressions and find interesting links to other sites on the web!

      Human Aggreggating.
    • sungoddess808, on 05/06/2008, -0/+5I don't know about having to open five pages to read the article. I only found one. Sometimes writers have to get creative to capture the attention from the reader. If they get too technical, the average person may not completely understand and lose interest. Read a thesis and you'll see what I mean. =)
    • dropthehammer, on 05/06/2008, -1/+4i'm not complaining about the author being creative or not "being trustworthy" by not linking to places. My problem with Environmental Graffiti is that it has changed from a decent environmental site that actually wrote about environmental issues and was even occasionally funny into something that is 75% posts that are written for the sole purpose of submitting to digg and getting traffic. There has been a HUGE increase in the number of "Top 5" articles on the site and very few of them have to do with the environment anymore. And now they've added pagination, where you have to open a new page to see #4, a new page for #3, etc. That, plus all the irrelevant diggbait articles, are why I bury posts like this from environmental graffiti. Maybe some day they;ll go back to actually writing well-written pieces on the environment. Then i will digg them and not bury them.
  • surKaz, on 05/06/2008, -1/+5Hmm.. All the author did was post videos of the suits already on the web.. Some content would have been nice..
  • maddvibe, on 05/06/2008, -1/+3My friend always swore he'd have spider legs someday. Where's the spider legs!?
  • Shuk, on 05/06/2008, -2/+48MAXIMUM STRENGTH!
    MAXIMUM ARMOR!
    MAXIMUM SPEED!
    • insanebrain, on 05/06/2008, -8/+2maximum crap.
    • grodrigu, on 05/06/2008, -1/+2But will it help me have 400 babies that run like Kenyans?
      • marshaiiness, on 05/06/2008, -0/+0It will definitely get you deported back to KENYA!!!
    • Ouze, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3i clicked on the comments for this story solely to see if there would be a Iron Man/Crysis comment within the first 10 comments. In with Iron Man at 3, and at #10 exactly, you just made it, Shuk.
    • kingjesus, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1...stealth...
    • Mokacoffay, on 05/08/2008, -0/+0Awwww man... I was intent on coming in here and posting a MAXIMUM comment, lol
  • mandarin, on 05/06/2008, -8/+3Stupid article....
  • redisant, on 05/06/2008, -11/+2dugg down because Starship Troopers did not come out in 1959 and because it's a list of 5 things that makes you click to a different page for each item.
  • zadadka, on 05/06/2008, -0/+4Something like Ripley's cargo-handling exoskeleton in Aliens is still the most likely commercial version... though, of course, we'll wait for the military to perfect it, and make it more cheaply available along the way.
    • kingmanic, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1A small fork lift is already pretty close to Ripley's suit. The only diff is it's faster, more maneuverable and seemingly easier to use. Only benifit to ripleys suit is it can smack aliens more effectively.
  • itsgotyou, on 05/06/2008, -1/+5Man and machine, power extreme.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centurions
  • Nemoso, on 05/06/2008, -1/+6Buried for too many pages. Also, the landwalker is an exoskeleton the same way my car is: it's not.
  • Shadowgamers, on 05/06/2008, -0/+9I remember that Bear Proof suit.

    IT HAS A WATCH! (or was it a mirror?)
    ON YOUR CROTCH!
    • ErikHarrison, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1"Stop looking at my crotch!"
      "But I need to see what time it isssss."
  • jonshipman, on 05/06/2008, -6/+1I AM IRONMAN
  • leerayIG88, on 05/06/2008, -1/+2Hal 5 would be perfect for my aging parents
  • HillerMylife, on 07/24/2008, -2/+3Let's sperg out over ironman some more
  • BrownJedi, on 05/06/2008, -1/+3MJOLNIR armor here i come
  • jordansampson, on 05/06/2008, -0/+4The guy in the last video is now bankrupt. The ideas he came up with are just amazing (fire gel and angel light). I guess that goes to show you that no matter how brilliant you are people wont go near you if your bat ***** crazy.
    • catbeller, on 05/06/2008, -0/+5The way to impress buyers, comic book style: as a demo, walk into a room of armed marines, and kick each and every one of their asses, absorbing every round they throw at you. "Your puny guns cannot penetrate my armored exo-suit!" would be an appropriate line in that situation. Or go into a gang meeting and do your Iron Man thing. America loves a successful lone inventor; it hates one that can't market himself well.
      • jordansampson, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1he was Canadian I think. :P

        And.... This isnt the first time he went bankrupt.
        • catbeller, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1Are Canadians more accepting? More reason to move...
      • roflbrothel, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1Catbellar = the guy in the last video, lol
    • roflbrothel, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1hahaha, brilliant?
  • kakwakas, on 05/06/2008, -0/+4Now, why hasn't someone combined #4 and #5? That would be downright AWESOME.
  • DannySpace, on 05/06/2008, -0/+0Yeah, good luck on using that thing for stealth missions. "Sounds like you have a lawnmower shoved up your crack, Soldier!"
  • CarbonAndroid, on 05/06/2008, -1/+2Try a forklift. What is the point? To move overweight, maybe old people around.
    • SpeedSteamBoat, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1I believe the point is more like saving people from experience the chronic back pain a lot of baby-boomers now have as a result of manual labor.

      And naturally to increase productivity to an insane degree.
    • S1ngular1ty1, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1Gee, maybe it could be used in construction to move things where forklifts can't go? Maybe it would offer jobs for people to work in factories doing repetitive jobs without getting illnesses from doing that type of work? Or maybe it could be used for health care workers to help them lift patients? I bet if would be helpful for fireman in rescuing people in danger.
  • sparc5, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2They're gonna need to build larger baseball stadiums.
  • astrobela, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3Who is the ***** that hacked into my exoskeleton yesterday?? Samba dancing instead of saving that little kitten from the tree is not funny!!
  • a1programmer, on 05/06/2008, -4/+4The truth is, I am Ironman.
    • astrobela, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3that's a quote from the movie you idiots that bury him
  • nathangl, on 05/06/2008, -4/+2Investing $50Million dollars for what? The future of war? How about investing $50Million dollars for the future of peace instead. As far as I see, reading popular science future weapons / army technology 20 years ago I still don't see that kind of equipment on the battlefield. Aren't infantry using the same deprecated hardware they used to. Why not give peace a chance.
    • kingmanic, on 05/06/2008, -1/+4Ironic, that you would say that while using so many a military funded invention (Computers, internet, etc..). UAV's, Armed Robots, networked battle fields, and smart weapons which were sci-fi in the past but now used in battlefield. The exo suits will be useful in allowing soldiers to carry more amour, carry more food, heavier weapons and more ammo when they occur. This gives the ones who develop it a leg up. War does cause human misery but it can be useful and it often cannot be prevented. Why not give your soldiers an edge when it is not preventable (WWI) and shorten the duration if it was preventable but they did it any ways (IRAQ).
    • Galume, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2And you want to give peace a chance by....disarming and not developing ways to protect soldiers? "Give peace a chance" is a nice (if not dated) slogan, but you've got to get EVERYBODY in the WORLD to agree to it for it to succeed- otherwise the moment you let your guard down the militant fanatics in the middle-east will be on you like ugly on a gorilla. Sorry to harsh your buzz dude, but there are bad people who don't agree with your outlook on life.
    • MozzieTS, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1DARPA invented the internet, not al gore.
    • mGARANDEUR1, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1Why don't you turn down the Sublime for a few minutes and take a look at what the world has become.
  • funkdigital, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1I want a land walker.... NOW! I have stuff to blow up.
  • Rosco, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1Will it be resistant to bullets and anomalies though? The zone can be a dangerous place.
  • gametavern, on 05/06/2008, -2/+2The Future is now:

    http://mjolnirarmor.com/images/mjolnir.gif
  • hasslinthehoff, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1I'll take Hardiman... and those horn-rimmed glasses.
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  • tcpip4lyfe, on 05/06/2008, -1/+2I want a samus suit
  • pr5owner, on 05/06/2008, -9/+1that halo suit lookalike is NOTHING like the real mjolnir armor

    the real combat armor is capable of

    vacuum environments
    radioactive environments
    extreme heat and cold climates
    crystalline ballistics armor that's designed to deflect 10 000C plasma
    bio foam injectors in the event of projectile amour penetrations
    auto sealing foam to prevent leaks in vacuum environments
    re-breather apparatus that allows you to work in a zero O2 environment for 30-50+ mins
    HUD
    networked battlefield components
    com systems
    health monitors
    augments movements

    theres alot more but that bear suit thing is a POS compared to the mjolnir armor
    • diggB, on 05/06/2008, -0/+15I think you have the words "real" and fictional confused.
    • guitarbren, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3I logged in just to bury you.
    • mGARANDEUR1, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1and I suppose that you have the means to build something better?
  • snagra, on 05/06/2008, -0/+5The guy who made the bear suit and the Trojan is now bankrupt and ended up having to raffle off the suit. No military offers ever came his way.
  • ilikesboobs, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1More like Rickety Crickets exoskeleton and less like Iron Man.
  • JDPoZ, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1Heh, I just found out the Hal5 cybernetic exoskeleton suit is made by a company called Cyberdyne... How fitting.

    http://www.cyberdyne.jp/English/index.html

    ...Also, the video of Hal5 is no longer available on youtube.
  • jstone, on 05/06/2008, -0/+3The Sarcos XOS should have been at the top of the list. It is the most advanced powered exoskeleton out there. The Trojan is just a load-bearing structure; there's no strength augmentation involved. And the whole point of the XOS is to allow the soldier to carry more armor and weapons.
  • seomike, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1That thing is loud as hell. Why not arm them with some chainsaws and drop a couple of pianos around them?
    Unless they can quite that thing up some you might as well paint a big arrow on the dumb ass running around in it.
  • ThatEvilGuy, on 05/06/2008, -1/+1The best exo suit I've seen so far has been the Crysis one, that thing just looks so cool with that fiber optic finishing and it actually looks functional.
  • Ninjao, on 05/06/2008, -1/+4QUICK SOLDIER WHATS THE TIME IN PARIS!? One second sir i'll just look at my ***** clock.
  • davidwg, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1There's a bigger list of exoskeletons here: http://www.oobject.com/category/exoskeletons/
  • jmbarbera, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2Old news!
    Stephen Hawking Builds Robotic Exoskeleton in 1997.
    http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39133
  • RSS14, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1I wait for a future where robots post intelligent comments on digg. However, they would soon become sentient and become just like us
  • RSS14, on 05/06/2008, -0/+11. Real life Halo suit
    The Halo armor is called Mjolnir, gosh!
  • blixity, on 05/06/2008, -0/+0exoskeletons, bionic prosthetics, cyborgs. mobile, personalized war machines are here. donna haraway's cyborg theories are most apt.
  • kb29, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1I think the "Real Life Halo Suit" has some good potential, but it's not powered. Compact servos and actuators could fix that.


    I think if it was made more compact it would be better.
    • roflbrothel, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1I think if it was made less retarded it would be better.
    • mGARANDEUR1, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1Good idea. You should develop a powered and more compact suit. Go to the library and rent some engineering books. I expect a complete prototype to be completed by the end of the month.
  • roflbrothel, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1The last one is ridiculous. I haven't lolled that hard in at least 10 minutes.
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