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My first thread here on GAF. I searched for "robotic suit" in titles and came up with nothing.

AT A sprawling shipyard in South Korea, workers dressed in wearable robotics were hefting large hunks of metal, pipes and other objects as if they were nothing.
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The exoskeleton fits anyone between 160 and 185 centimetres tall. Workers do not feel the weight of its 28-kilogram frame of carbon, aluminium alloy and steel, as the suit supports itself and is engineered to follow the wearer's movements. With a 3-hour battery life, the exoskeleton allows users to walk at a normal pace and, in its prototype form, it can lift objects with a mass of up to 30 kilograms.
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As the industry grows, so too will the need for automation, including robotic suits of the kind Daewoo is experimenting with. The prototypes still have several important kinks to be worked out, though. In tests, workers had a hard time negotiating sloping or slippery surfaces. And the prototypes cannot yet cope with twisting motions, so workers making turns while carrying heavy objects could tire out easily.

http://www.newscientist.com/article...campaign=hoot&cmpid=SOC|NSNS|2013-GLOBAL-hoot

I thought this was an interesting article about robotic suits being tested out for future use, this one in particular is for building ships.

The current research target for them is to eventually have a lifting capacity of 100 kilograms, not just 30.

 

[WorldStar]

skinny asian brah needed a robotic suit to pick up a 20 lb piece of metal?

do u even lift

 

[El_Presidente]

Isn't this how Gundam started??

 

[Finaika]

Isn't this how Gundam started??

Gundam is Japanese.

 

[Spider from Mars]

It begins

Can't wait to use a power loader and a mech

 

[NYR94]

 

[Irishmantis]

I thought i was on Cracked.com for a split sec

 

[Monocle]

"Get away from her you bitch!"

 

[sixteen-bit]

Neat exoskeleton. I love the concept.

 

[Irishmantis]

3 hour battery life, what happens if you carrying something really heavy, and the battery dies?

 

[davepoobond]

Metal... Gear?

 

[rrs]

Where's my labors at

 

[Pop]

3 hour battery life, what happens if you carrying something really heavy, and the battery dies?

Say goodbye to your arms

 

[SRG01]

3 hour battery life, what happens if you carrying something really heavy, and the battery dies?

The suit is self supporting.

 

[Ravek]

skinny asian brah needed a robotic suit to pick up a 20 lb piece of metal?

do u even lift

Dry Wall isn't heavy, but after you put up six or eight pieces on the ceiling, you do start to feel the fatigue set in.

Additionally, this would double as a safety feature. Ensuring 20lb pieces of sharp metal doesn't land on you head.

And fake edit: before someone says something, hard hats only help so much.

 

[Zaptruder]

This is fantastic for workers.

Up until the point management realizes that the increased efficiency of a single worker means you can decrease the number of workers needed.

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

3 hour battery life, what happens if you carrying something really heavy, and the battery dies?

You better hope your S2 engine activates on its own.

 

[TAJ]

Dry Wall isn't heavy, but after you put up six or eight pieces on the ceiling, you do start to feel the fatigue set in.

Depends entirely on the person. I used to shoot layups with 115 pound sheets of plywood onto upper stories continuously for hours and not feel it. (1 1/8" structural)

 

[Stinkles]

I had to carry 30 pounds of Swedish Fish recently. Are first I was like, sure I can lift. But then it got hard.

 

[Ravek]

Depends entirely on the person.

True but that is always the case regardless of the labor at hand, so your point is a bit irrelevant.

 

[dekline]

I just want a suit like this so I can run like 70mph.

 

[Zaptruder]

I had to carry 30 pounds of Swedish Fish recently. Are first I was like, sure I can lift. But then it got hard.

Was it pre or post pickling?

If the latter, I imagine it got hard very quickly for reasons unrelated to weight and endurance.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

 

[Sub_Level]

Bay 12 please