{"id":88821,"date":"2019-03-20T13:43:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/the-u-s-military-is-buying-a-brutal-looking-powered-exoskeleton"},"modified":"2019-03-20T13:43:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:43:33","slug":"the-u-s-military-is-buying-a-brutal-looking-powered-exoskeleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/the-u-s-military-is-buying-a-brutal-looking-powered-exoskeleton","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Military is Buying a Brutal-Looking Powered Exoskeleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-u-s-military-is-buying-a-brutal-looking-powered-exoskeleton2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The partnership could greatly enhance the productivity of a single officer in the field and decrease fatigue or strain \u2014 but the USSOCOM didn\u2019t reveal the exact intended use case for the exoskeleton, which lets the wearer heft 200 pounds (90 kg).<\/p>\n<p><b>Forklift Arms<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest sign that exoskeletons are finally hitting the mainstream. Automobile manufacturers are <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/exoskeletons-ford-factory\">already considering<\/a> the use of simpler exoskeletons on factory floors. And the Food and Drug Administration <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/fda-approved-robotic-exoskeleton-augments-strength\">approved<\/a> a lower-body exoskeleton last year for use by people with lower limb disabilities.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/military-full-body-sarcos-exoskeleton\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/military-full-body-sarcos-exoskeleton\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The partnership could greatly enhance the productivity of a single officer in the field and decrease fatigue or strain \u2014 but the USSOCOM didn\u2019t reveal the exact intended use case for the exoskeleton, which lets the wearer heft 200 pounds (90 kg). Forklift Arms It\u2019s the latest sign that exoskeletons are finally hitting the mainstream. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88821","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}