Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk

Re:Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk by samstave on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @12:40PM (#27974476)

One of my favorite movies "Edge of Tomorrow" has dope exoskeletons, and while its a movie - thats where this is heading...

I am surprised Boston Dynamics hasnt made one! If you converted the agility of Atlas into an exoskeleton, that would be pretty interesting...

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Re:Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk by nzeribe on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @01:06PM (#27974804)

Aliens, 1986: "I have a class-2 rating." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPMk-EEyOpE

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Re:Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk by capekwasright on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @01:26PM (#27975052)

They actually did, as part of DARPA's Warrior Web program [1]. They ultimately spun off the program to Ekso Bionics as a consequence of the Google acquisition back in 2014 [2].

[1] https://www.army.mil/article/125315/darpas_warrior_web_proje... (the first image is of BD's system; you can just make out "BOST" around the center of the left thigh)

[2] https://www.globenewswire.com/fr/news-release/2014/10/02/670...

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Re:Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk by nanodeath on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @01:20PM (#27974979)

Similarly I thought of Death Stranding :)

Though I guess exoskeletons are not uncommon in sci-fi.

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Re:Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk by justinclift on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @01:28PM (#27975086)

Tried that game out, but found it to be realllllllllly tedious. eg initial missions took walking, while carrying some person's body over the shoulder, for "miles". Urk.

Did it get better after those early missions?

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Re:Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk by baby on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @12:43PM (#27974519)

Reminds me of matrix as well

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