How close are we to having a powered, armoured, exoskeleton? What major roadblocks (besides a source of portable power) are preventing one from being made?
How close are we to having a powered, armoured, exoskeleton...
Sebastian Rogers
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Ethan Barnes
none aside new batteries to power the suit.
Cooper Jones
The big thing is control mechanism.
You either need some kind of neural interface, or you need a machine learning system that can "follow" the movements of the person inside the suit, without accidentally breaking their legs/arms by making extreme motions.
Owen Harris
How would a neural interface work? Would it be similar to a prosthetic?
Colton Morgan
Well if we want to take the movie as a bench mark, literally not even close.
He got shot out of the sky with a tank shell and it didn't even do anything to him.
Lucas Torres
retard alert
Kevin Murphy
I didn't mean exactly like the movie, I just meant in general. Something similar.
Adrian Walker
Control systems aren't good enough, current exoskeletons require quite a bit of user energy to move.
Power sources are a problem for smaller suits but some crazy grad student could make a bigger suit (not gundam, think power loader) with a straight up combustion engine.
Cooper Foster
engineering undergrad alert
Jordan King
Something still has to absorb the force of projectiles, exactly as people shot wearing Kevlar get micro-fractures that kills them early. And of course if there were protective suits there would be bullets of the same material that could penetrate the armor.