Exoskeleton In The Army
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
The rise of the machines is upon us. Okay, so that statement is a little bit over dramatic but you get the point - at least you will after reading this entry.
Introducing [tag]BLEEX[/tag] - the Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton. No, it is not a high-tech replacement for viagra! BLEEX is a device designed to take a load off your feet - literally.
BLEEX is an [tag]exoskeleton[/tag] device designed to carry all the load and function in synergy with the user. It is designed and developed at the Berkeley Robotics Laboratory.
There are over 40 sensors that form a local area network (LAN) within the exeskeleton unit. These sensors are designed to function much like the human nervous system. Connected to a central computer, the high-tech setup continuously calculate load bearing and balancing depending on the wearer’s situation. Basically, when you are in a BLEEX, you won’t break a sweat while hiking up a mountain with a huge load on your back. You don’t even have to control BLEEX while wearing it either, the whole unit kinda works in sync with your movement.
This is good news for the army since modern soldier are equipped with one heckuva huge backpack to lug around. No surprise then that the BLEEX project is being funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA).
Suited up with an ESG Personal Flying Wing, a more lethal version of the PHaSR rifle and BLEEX, the modern soldier looks to be a tough nut to crack.
Until they run out of batteries that is…
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