In the United States embarked on the final phase of testing – Information and Services Portal Voronezh

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In the United States not only make movies about superheroes, but also create development, which are not inferior to that available in the arsenal of superhumans. And the Agency for Defense Advanced Research Projects United States (DARPA) did not look for the easy way and for the past few years developing a suit like Iron Man. Local scientists are not laurels Tony Stark, only use this exoskeleton will all, without exception, the military, and not one person.

There have already been carried out and successfully tested individual components of the exoskeleton. Now they will gather together and will be tested.

The entire program is carried out with the direct support of the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL). In fact, in the development of the exoskeleton involves several independent groups within the DARPA, as well as a subsidiary of Google Ekso Bionic and several university laboratories. At the first stage of the project includes nine independent development of which was to consist exoskeleton. Now, however, their number was reduced to six.

Many of the components of the exoskeleton has gone from alpha to beta. This happened, for example, Air Legs – a device designed to loaded from head to foot soldiers was able to cover a distance of 1 mile in 4 minutes. This task was able to cope. Now it is small – at the expense of modernization of pneumatic actuators, which are part of the structure for attaching to the knees and ankles, to ensure that the distance is greater than 1 mile.

Ideally, researchers want to create a compact military exoskeleton that would be for them is as familiar and commonplace as Hydrostatic skeleton for divers.

At the same time, the future exoskeleton yet will not try to use as, for example, the vest. Its developers claim that the main tasks set before them, – reduce injuries and improve their physical capabilities. In the future, the exoskeleton will be introduced and regenerative components.

In order to test the individual components of the exoskeleton DARPA experts have identified several soldiers, who for three days exoskeleton tested under conditions close to the fighting. In particular, they dragged themselves to 55 kg of equipment and climbed it on forests and ravines, running along country roads. Specialists it was necessary to understand in which direction to modernize the exoskeleton and how to make it universal.

«The final prototype will be presented in 2016. And then we plan to launch mass production of exoskeletons, “- said Major Christopher Orlowski, who oversees the project from DARPA.

In addition to this project, the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is funding the creation of a light tactical suit for assault (TALOS). This will at the same time an armored exoskeleton and agile. However, while it did not come even before the prototype – researchers still choose the materials and try to figure out how to provide such a structure with energy.