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Bionic Legs

Rabies · 2004-03-11 17:58:43

news.bbc.co.uk Cool idea. But the backpack to make it all work is way too big. Needs to made alot smaller.

11-03-2004 5:58pm

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In the lab, subjects have walked around in the 45kg (100 lbs) exoskeleton plus a 31.5kg (70 lbs) backpack and reported that it felt like they were carrying little over 2kg (5 lbs).

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Cool idea. But the backpack to make it all work is way too big. Needs to made alot smaller.

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#2 11-03-2004 6:48pm

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Yea, put there is space for a payload up to 45 Kg..... well that's what I get from the article. And the 45Kg is said to only feel like two.

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