Saturday, October 2, 2010

Raytheon Updates the Exoskeleton

It has been a while since I have posted a science fiction becoming science fact update, Ratheon Corporation has updated its exoskeletal system with EXO2 making the future of human worn suits of armor once more a practical. The possible uses for this technology do not end with military missions. The reality of these sorts of devices is one that will take a decade to matriculate into our society, but I can see them in every walk and climb from the obvious military applications, to the more critical civil defense applications of police and fire fighters (urban and forest), and then let us not for get all jobs that require repeditive motions and heavy lifting. The future will benefit from this research greatly in my opinion. There will also be its corresponding woes but that has always been the way of advancements.