{"id":129594,"date":"2021-10-27T14:22:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T21:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/taiwan-has-made-a-battery-powered-exoskeleton-to-give-super-strength-to-its-soldiers"},"modified":"2021-10-27T14:22:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T21:22:33","slug":"taiwan-has-made-a-battery-powered-exoskeleton-to-give-super-strength-to-its-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/taiwan-has-made-a-battery-powered-exoskeleton-to-give-super-strength-to-its-soldiers","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Has Made A Battery-Powered Exoskeleton To Give Super Strength To Its Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/taiwan-has-made-a-battery-powered-exoskeleton-to-give-super-strength-to-its-soldiers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taiwan has made a battery-powered exoskeleton suit that will allow its soldiers to run faster and carry heavy objects.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first-generation suit made by the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3153782\/taiwan-builds-ironman-suit-cut-fatigue-troops-ground-wartime\">according to <em>The South China Morning Post<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em>The suit is a part of a four-year project called the \u201cTaiwan Ironman program.\u201d It has a budget of $5.74 million and the goal of providing Taiwan\u2019s soldiers with a lower-body exoskeleton to increase their strength and endurance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo reduce fatigue of soldiers in carrying heavy facilities\u2026 we started developing the powered suit for the military in 2020,\u201d Jen Kuo-Kuang, head developer of the project, said in comments at a news conference obtained by the <em>SCMP<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan has made a battery-powered exoskeleton suit that will allow its soldiers to run faster and carry heavy objects. This is the first-generation suit made by the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, according to The South China Morning Post. The suit is a part of a four-year project called the \u201cTaiwan Ironman program.\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}