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.
Hudson Evans
We have those already. Pic related
Oliver Hughes
>bullets of the same material that could penetrate the armor
no
Ayden Gutierrez
Dumbass.
Batteries.
Power output from those batteries.
Metal strong enough to withstand direct hit from bullets/explosions while still being light enough for the user to stand in without constant power.
Easton Ramirez
Okay, so what are the best batteries for something like this?
And what would be the best metal?
Tyler Ward
We've been using skin-surface electrical signals in medical prosthetics for a while now. It's literally just doing the same thing, calibrating the armor to understand your specific motion controls, then letting it respond to your stimuli.
May have to recalibrate for every new user, but it's not as big of a problem as your making it out to be. I'd be more concerned with power supply and the range that you'd have with something like that.
Charles Nguyen
Cyberdyne's HAL, shown in does this
Nolan Mitchell
>We've been using skin-surface electrical signals in medical prosthetics
Are you kidding me? That shit sucks.
If you want real responsive movement you need much better control systems. This is an unsolved problem.
>calibrating the armor to understand your specific motion controls
You say this as if its just some parameters you have to tweak. Show me one implementation of such a system lol
David Hernandez
Absolutely screaming
Xavier Evans
>What major roadblocks (besides a source of portable power)
Camden Lopez
We have exoskeletons that do this already:
en.m.wikipedia.org
The other way of controlling an exoskeleton is to sense the forces amd torques the user applies. If one has a fast enough control loop one can cancel out the exoskeleton's weight so that the wearer doesn't feel it.
Michael Powell