Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Robotic Exoskeleton Turns Soldiers Into Space Marines

From AMC

Sci-fi has trained us to expect military personnel to be walking around in mech suits. From Starship Troopers to Robocop, our expectations have been set: if you're not walking around in a flying skeleton of titanium alloy, you're just a flaccid water balloon full of meat slurry in a shooting range.

here is some video of very up to date "super suit"

amc/scifiscanner/2007/11/robotic-exoskel.html

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"you're just a flaccid water balloon full of meat slurry in a shooting range."

OMG...what a classic line (could be straight out of one of Harry Harrison's novels)

Anonymous said...

yeah, I really liked that one too...