print email comment close 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. 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