HULC Exoskeleton From Lockheed Martin


	HULC Exoskeleton From Lockheed Martin

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3-10-2009 11:58 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/992c0cd9-5dfd-45bf-9b6a-82d1900ded4a/1F0F04A1-0330-47C8-BB58-0B78ACEBAAD4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=2174" href="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=2174" style="font-size: 11px;">www.technovelgy.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=2174"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
HULC Exoskeleton From Lockheed Martin</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=2174"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The <B>HULC Human Universal Load Carrier exoskeleton</B> from  Lockheed Martin was announced last week. The robotic endoskeleton is designed to augment the strength and endurance of soldiers; it transfers the load to the ground using powered titanium legs.
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=2174"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.technovelgy.com/img/64024839-2AA1-43E8-BC42-DA50136C78E5" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=2174"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">If you think you recognize the basic design, you're right; Lockeed Martin has licensed the <A href="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=51" linkindex="6">Berkley Bionics BLEEX robotic endoskeleton</A>, which was originally funded as a DARPA project.
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<FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">A much earlier reference to this idea can be found in a John W. Campbell classic - <I>The Brain Pirates</I>, a 1938 short story.
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<FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">"We have those new suits rigged with atomic-powered lifting gadgets, so that'll protect us from the weight, if what our instruments say about that world's true..."
(Read more about <A href="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1219" linkindex="8">atomic-powered lifting suits</A>)
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