{"id":28950,"date":"2016-08-15T08:47:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T15:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/progress-toward-real-life-super-soldiers"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:58:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:58:58","slug":"progress-toward-real-life-super-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/progress-toward-real-life-super-soldiers","title":{"rendered":"Progress toward real life super-soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/progress-toward-real-life-super-soldiers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2015\/09\/military-technology-pentagon-robots\/406786\/\" target=\"blank\">For three years ago U.S. Special Operations Command and DARPA announced they had started work on a super-soldier suit called TALOS (Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit) unlike anything in the history of warfare.<\/a> It is engineered with full-body ballistics protection; integrated heating and cooling systems; embedded sensors, antennas, and computers; 3D audio (to indicate where a fellow warfighter is by the sound of his voice); optics for vision in various light conditions; life-saving oxygen and hemorrhage controls; and more.<\/p>\n<p>It aims to be \u201cfully functional\u201d by 2018. \u201cI am here to announce that we are building Iron Man,\u201d President Barack Obama said of the suit during a manufacturing innovation event in 2014. When the president said, \u201cThis has been a secret project we\u2019ve been working on for a long time,\u201d he wasn\u2019t kidding.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999 DARPA created the Defense Sciences Office (DSO) and made Michael Goldblatt its director. Goldblatt saw the creation of the super-soldier as imperative to 21st-century warfare.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/08\/progress-toward-real-life-super-soldiers.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Fadvancednano+%28nextbigfuture%29&utm_content=FaceBook\">http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/08\/progress-toward-real-li...t=FaceBook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For three years ago U.S. Special Operations Command and DARPA announced they had started work on a super-soldier suit called TALOS (Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit) unlike anything in the history of warfare. It is engineered with full-body ballistics protection; integrated heating and cooling systems; embedded sensors, antennas, and computers; 3D audio (to indicate where [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,1523,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-computing","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28950","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60788,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28950\/revisions\/60788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}