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Singapore Army trials titanium exoskeleton designed to reduce load on soldiers (channelnewsasia.com)
15 points by apsec112 on July 26, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments


OT, I know, but what I would really want to have available would be an exoskeleton "loader" like the "Caterpillar P-5000" in Alien.

There was a sort of it as a "civil" experimental one by Panasonic (with a projected affordable price):

https://www.cnet.com/news/panasonic-working-on-actual-alien-...

which was never finalized (let alone sold at that kind of price).


Mitsubishi had a similar prototype at DSEI Tokyo last year. Good to see lots of effort put into these concepts.

These are frequently argued as useful for special operations forces. I think they are more applicable for logistics personnel, aviation maintenance, etc.....people who are lifting heavy objects regularly, and yet are close enough to power sources/repair facilities that power-efficiency and ruggedness don't need to be perfect.


Can civilians buy this tech? It would be so nice for carrying all my kid's stuff


They have a civilian exoskeleton also: https://www.mawashi.net/en/fraco-exoskeleton-by-mawashi


Wonder when I'll be seeing brickies wearing these? Might double your potential working life, letting you retire with your spine intact.


Argh, the videos in that page are useless, you hit play and it's a girl doing a vlog. Just show me the product in use! I skipped around the 3 videos and I couldn't find a clear show of the exoskeleton in action.

It's strange to see this social media style marketing for an industrial product... props to them if it works, although in this case it didn't work for me.


It's exactly what you'd expect: social-media style marketing is for products that people don't want/need based on what they actually do. Since your product doesn't solve a problem, you create a problem: "as a user I want to look cool and fit in with my peers". To do that, you create social proof around the product, so people thinks it will fill their social needs.

There's a reason Apple, for example, has ads that just show a disembodied hand using their product. They know they have a good product that does something people want, so they don't need social proof.

The exoskeleton is probably being advertised with social media style marketing because it doesn't work (yet).




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