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Building the Real Iron Man
URL: http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-04/building-real-iron-man

Description:
This 2008 feature provides background about the XOS exoskeleton, a project under development by the Sarcos robotics company with funding from the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that has taken the "military's 40-year-old fantasy of mechanically enhanced soldiers that can carry heavy loads and begun to make it real." Features photos, a video, and sidebar articles. From Popular Science.

LII Topics: Robotics, Technology

Author:
Mono, Gregory

Publisher:
Popular Science

Extra Keywords
Steve Jacobsen robot sherpa

LII Database Information:
Record 25969 created by Jennifer English on 04/23/2008
Last modification on 04/24/2008
Published: 04/30/2008  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25969

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