Harvard’s Wyss Institute receives $2.6M from DARPA to develop suit The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University today announced that it has received a $2.6... Read more
Designed specifically for tasks that require heavy lifting, such as commerce or nursing Researchers from the Tokyo University of Science in Japan are now developing a light exoskeleton conce... Read more
Cyberdyne, Inc. is offering to help The Japanese government is searching for new ways to clean up the mess created by the reactor meltdowns earlier this year at the Fukushima Daiichi... Read more
Following lab evaluation tests, Lockheed Martin’s ruggedized HULC (Human Universal Load Carrier) robotic exoskeleton is now undergoing biomechanical testing at the U.S. Army Natick Sol... Read more
If you’ve seen Avatar or Aliens, then you’ve seen futuristic versions of exoskeletons – mechanical systems that human users wear over their bodies, to augment their own physical... Read more
We’ve covered a number of amazing exoskeletons here on Gizmag, ranging from the solutions for paraplegics – see REX Bionics’ and Berkley Bionics’exoskeletons – to the downr... Read more
At a press conference held this morning in San Francisco, California’s Berkeley Bionics unveiled its eLEGS exoskeleton. The computer-controlled device is designed to be worn by paraplegics,... Read more
Six years back we covered the amazing 3.4 meter bi-pedal exoskeleton from Japan known as the Landwalker. Imagine our surprise when we found that it’s producer, machinery and robotics m... Read more
Technology has always defined how wars are fought, from swords to bows and arrows through the invention of gunpowder and the dawn of the aircraft and, now, to the presence of laser-guided un... Read more