Iron Man-like Exoskeleton Nears Production 220
fangmcgee writes "By now, with films like Iron Man, its sequel, and Avatar, Hollywood has made us thoroughly familiar with the idea of the robotic exoskeleton. Less well known, however, is that researchers are actually building robotic exoskeletons like the ones envisioned by Hollywood and the comic book visionaries from whom Hollywood pilfers its most lucrative ideas. Among the developers of real-life Iron Man suits (of which there are many, the world over) is a group called Raytheon Sarcos. And as IEEE Spectrum reports in this month's issue, its impressive second-generation exoskeleton robotics suit, dubbed the XOS 2, is nearing production."
Re:awesome (Score:4, Funny)
Can you imagine jerking it with that thing.
It would certainly give a whole new meaning to the "off" part.
Re:Not Skynet enough (Score:4, Funny)
Also, once your adversary reaches the same technological level the end result is having robots fight other robots.
Well, it's all very clean and neat then:
1. Two armies of robots fight it out in a huge but very confined conflagration.
2. Eventually, one side defeats the other and eradicates all their robots.
3. Whatever victorious robots remain then, of course, go ahead and exterminate the entire enemy civilian population.
See how neat and clean that is? Warfare will be much more decisive and the following peace will certainly be much longer-lasting.