USA's 'Robomilitary' program.

This BBC news report explains the fact that the american goverment have started to fund a program run by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa).
news.bbc.co.uk...
If you don't know what an exoskeleton is or how it works i'd look here.
www.howstuffworks.com...

A quote from Dr Ephrahim Garcia, co-ordinator of the exoskeleton project states:
"The controls, the power requirements, the human interface to the machine are all things that we do not know if we can do yet,"

They are paying $50,000,000 to build a program which in all probabillity will not work. The complexities of such a gear are so much they are almost unthinkable. A main problem is geting the exoskeleton to work with the body. This means they would have to directly link it to the brain or the spinal cord.

This cannot be done.

The brain is too complex to understand to such an extent to make this gear posible. Even now scientists do not fully understand the brain and an error conecting the exoskeleton to the brain would result in paralasis or death. Good idea but it wouldn't work.

But yet again you do have to admire the americans, funding a suicidal research program.

Nothing is impossible! They thought going to the moom was impossible. Just do it! Let's put some mileage between ourselves and the socialists while we can.

Originally posted by bensrob
If you don't know what an exoskeleton is or how it works i'd look here.

Bensrob,
there's actually already a thread on ATS on this subject... good post you got there though - just a bit redundant~
Here's the link...
www.abovetopsecret.com...

Actually a Japanese firm has already produces a suit that improve strength. It is working and I have seen videos of it working. People become much stronger.

Originally posted by THENEO
Nothing is impossible! They thought going to the moom was impossible. Just do it! Let's put some mileage between ourselves and the socialists while we can.

And going to the moon was imposible the moon landing were a hoax.

And anyway if this did work, were would it end?

Originally posted by bensrob
And anyway if this did work, were would it end?

I'm afraid to think about where it would end, maybe John the time traveller was right ... 2012-2015 could be the beginning of the end for 75% of us. Isn't that a lovely thought

The japanese suit your thinking of was designed for paraplegics and other people who trouble walking. I saw the article in Popular Science. The scientist was trying to leg press a certain amount of weight and you could see him strain, but then he had the device on and he had no trouble. I tried to find a link but the article must of been from a couple months ago.

I want a MJOLNIR battle suit now!

I just read in a new scientist that bionic limbs are much nearer than we thought, there are now methods of taking input from nerves more easily, an exoskeleton could be controlled using just a few (properly connected) implants.