With the arrival of "Iron Man 2" on DVD, CBR News observed a real life exoskeleton at the Raytheon Sarcos facility. Like Tony Stark's armor, the suit will increase the operator's strength, endurance and agility.
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09-27-2010, 05:53 AM #1Mild-Mannered Reporter
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CBR: Raytheon Reveals Robotic Exosuit
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09-27-2010, 07:23 AM #2New Member
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Honestly, this isn't really "new". DARPA revealed this on Modern Marvels a couple years ago.
Still cool though. It will lead to some cool stuff that I wish I would still be in the Army to use.
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09-27-2010, 08:12 AM #3The Weak
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All I can think of is something goes wrong is meat in a taffy-pulling machine.
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09-27-2010, 09:12 AM #4Senior Member
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Were other comics/SF/entertainment media there...?
If so, having Gregg there and doing a show-and-tell for the fan-media was a pretty frickin' brilliant marketing strategy.
I've noticed a number of "see how cool we are" general institutional ads for defense companies on TV lately. Lockheed-Martin, definitely, and I think Northrop-Grumman, as well... There must be Congressional budget hearings coming up; that's usually when the defense contractors run those types of promotional ads.
Still -- playing the "Iron Man Mark 0.5" card by bringing Gregg in was pretty clever of Raytheon's marketeers. Well done, people."A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history -- with the possible exceptions of hand guns and tequila." -- Mitch Ratliffe
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