{"id":740,"date":"2008-05-19T08:05:35","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T12:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=740"},"modified":"2008-05-16T23:15:34","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T03:15:34","slug":"bugs-mr-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=740","title":{"rendered":"Bugs, Mr. Rico!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starship Troopers may not be so far away.  Utah-based Sarcos, Inc., under contract to the U.S. Army, has developed the first practical robotic exoskeleton.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and plays tennis and skis when time allows. But the 5-foot-11, 180-pound software engineer is lucky if he presses 200 pounds &#8212; that is, until he steps into an &#8220;exoskeleton&#8221; of aluminum and electronics that multiplies his strength and endurance as many as 20 times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Army&#8217;s exoskeleton program is nearly 25 years old, but until now the suits haven&#8217;t been practical to manufacture or to wear.  This new design could change all that.<\/p>\n<p>The article says that although the Army believes that soldiers may someday wear the suits, right now it&#8217;s focusing on uses such as repairing heavy equipment and loading cargo.  So if a Queen Alien shows up, we&#8217;ll totally be ready.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080515\/ap_on_hi_te\/robotic_soldier_suit\">Link<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starship Troopers may not be so far away. Utah-based Sarcos, Inc., under contract to the U.S. Army, has developed the first practical robotic exoskeleton. Rex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and plays tennis and skis when time allows. But the 5-foot-11, 180-pound software engineer is lucky if he presses 200 pounds &#8212; that is, until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}