{"id":75429,"date":"2018-01-20T00:22:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T08:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/lockheed-exoskeleton-gives-troops-a-leg-up-literally"},"modified":"2018-01-20T00:22:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T08:22:31","slug":"lockheed-exoskeleton-gives-troops-a-leg-up-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/lockheed-exoskeleton-gives-troops-a-leg-up-literally","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Exoskeleton Gives Troops A Leg Up, Literally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CgiGU7yCvQM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It is not <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2016\/05\/iron-man-not-terminator-the-pentagons-sci-fi-inspirations\/\">Iron Man<\/a>. It isn\u2019t even Iron Fist. Lockheed Martin\u2019s newest exoskeleton is more like Iron <em>Leg. <\/em>But for a soldier humping his weapons, ammo and body armor up a mountain in <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2017\/05\/afghans-want-troops-show-us-results\/\">Afghanistan<\/a> or a high-rise building in a <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2014\/05\/army-grapples-with-cyber-age-battles-in-megacities\/\">future urban battle<\/a>, a device to take the load off would be welcome. And, unlike science fiction supersuits, we can build it now.<\/p>\n<p>Exoskeletons are part of the Pentagon\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/tag\/offset-strategy\/\">Third Offset Strategy<\/a>, which seeks to use <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2016\/12\/best-of-2016-rise-of-the-robots\/\">robotics<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2017\/04\/dsd-work-unleashes-ai-on-intel-data-algorithmic-warfare\/\">artificial intelligence<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2015\/12\/will-us-pursue-enhanced-human-ops-depsecdef-wonders\/\">enhance humans on the battlefield<\/a>, rather than to replace them. There\u2019s no area where the need is more acute than in the <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/tag\/infantry\/\">infantry<\/a>, which takes the vast majority of casualties.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2017\/05\/k-srd-exoskeleton-gives-overburdened-troops-a-leg-up-literally\/\">https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2017\/05\/k-srd-exoskeleton-gives-...literally\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not Iron Man. It isn\u2019t even Iron Fist. Lockheed Martin\u2019s newest exoskeleton is more like Iron Leg. But for a soldier humping his weapons, ammo and body armor up a mountain in Afghanistan or a high-rise building in a future urban battle, a device to take the load off would be welcome. And, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75429","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=75429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}