Exoskeleton Robot Suit Tetsujin exosuit LIFESUIT 185 lbs

[id104335409]

To the post below:

I see they are 4 months old..

There are perfectly good exo-suits in use today by the US military. No wires and cables sticking out.

Sadly i don't think they give away these things to injured people yet.

[BadBunnyRides]

WOO HOO!

Now build my damn GUNDAM!

[RedCodeStudios]

thats stupid was it made in china or a kids basement.

[3ddrew]

Absolutely amazing. It's exciting thinking about how this technology can be used to help the crippled and paralyzed. Amazing, amazing stuff.

[6evorev6]

The suit needs to focus on armor & speed, those are the two crucial areas to consider, however with IED and robot tanks rolling off assembly lines everywhere, they are still a death trap if all you do is just patrol around like an idiot thus driving up the profits for the corporation that controls the war.

[WarpathWrel]

@6evorev6 I agree with your armor and speed notion. But I think if we could just make an incredibly armored suit that can function under a man's own physical strength, we'd be golden. Being able to lift a car is nice, but being able to survive a roadside bomb is better.

[tthumpit]

dudewalkerbot - God Bless you, and Thank You.

[WeedGreenPowerRanger]

Meh. Sarcos and HAL are way better.

What am I supposed to do with that?

It looks more cumbersome than practical.

[HypnoPants]

true, but could every construction worker, every nurse(who's had to lift a heavy patient), every person who's had to lift heavy objects in place of a machine(say if it breaks down) etc etc etc... it's more of the practicality of it.

[HypnoPants]

Or consider in most cases, as you age, your body not be able to handle constant repetitive extremely heavy loads... imagine trying to do jobs requiring heavy lifting for 20-30 years and at one point your back gives out, you lose your job forever... who cares if you can lift that weight :P it's for people who CANT! lol! geez why do so many people not see the practicality of it all? or simply compare it to their own ape strength(sorry did I say ape? little slow on evolution are ya? :P)

[dudewalkerbot]

HypnoPants, Thanks for the comments. You seem to understand. I once carried another soldier on my back with all of his gear because we were in a bad situation and he was hurt. I think it was probably 260 pounds I carried for about 200 yards where he could get some help from the medic. Shortly after that I was paralyzed in a parachute accident. Then I could only lift about ten pounds for a few years. I can walk most days but sometimes I can only walk with a LIFESUIT.

[Apolyion]

Thank you for your service to our country brother. It is greatly appreciated and you have my respect.

God Bless and be well.

[littleinventorreed]

thanks for the awesome comment

[mao12345]

That is the craziest supersuit I have seen. He looks like one of those guys walking around the park carrying 3 different instruments with a accordion and a drum strapped to the back (what do you call those guys again?).

[julius923]

a one man band?

[Duckyistrippin]

useless....

[littleinventorreed]

that's not cool that u said that

[Duckyistrippin]

like i give a fuck what you think. that "suit" is a complete turd. there are MUCH more sophisticated units on the market already. its just some bracing cobbled together and air cylinders. that really is nothing spectacular.

[KingOfBug]

WHy Just dont they use a hoist ? why difficult when easy ;)

[coaxialgyro]

Thats a very intreasting achivement with thousands of applications, I've always dreamt of making one also.

This invention would be great for helping out for such like , a expectent lady, but it is concerning if when she'd have a fit would she not then cuase more damage to whom ever came to help as this invention of course adds tremdous power to the users body movements.

[balletgirl123456]

I DONT UNDERSTAND

[dojohansen123]

These things happen. Its like a super-suit, giving the wearer huge strenght by clever servos that operate by sensing the nerve signals the brain send to muscles - hence creating the illusion (although crudely, I suppose) of superstrenght!

[picolini]

But 185lbs? Sure it's a lot, especially for most people, but it's nothing crazy. Maybe if it did 300+lbs it'd be something interesting. Most soldiers would easily be able to lift 185lbs. This thing doesn't even seem to have leg strengtheners (or whatever you'd like to call them), so you wouldn't be able to carry this any more of a distance than if you had it on your shoulders.

[Poofr]

Exoskeleton is good but exonerves is not, you gotta get rid of those wires if you wanna avoid accident

[dudewalkerbot]

To Poofr, Thank you for your comment. We have gotten rid of those yellow hoses and wires in LIFESUIT 16 prototype number sixteen.  They are inside the frame so 200 feet of hose and wire will be replaces with three feet. We hope it will look a lot better. So far we were only concerned about how it worked, not how it looked.

[littleinventorreed]

PRO-TO-TYPE

[67152]

to anyone that makes a negative comment on this......your a loon, can you imagine how many workman's comp suits are going to go away becouse of ideas like this?

I've injured my back before and something like this could have kept that from happening.

Keep up the good work, this is amazing.

[JUKIO01]

seriopusly though, this is a piece of crap, the japanese created something way better than this

[cloud811]

agreed, look up HAL 5 guys....and guess what? HAL 5 was made for the use of helping disabled people and to helps people, not rule the world. XD and its cooler, more compact, and lighter.

[dudewalkerbot]

To cloud811 Thank you for your comment. We hope the HAL will be in medical trials this year with paralyzed people walking like the New LIFESUIT #16. We would love to see the HAL #5 at the RobOlympics Robogames. Wow I guess the LIFESUIT has nine more prototypes then HAL. We also hold the world land speed distance record for walking while wearing a robot suit. 2.5mph 3miles 90 minutes in 2005.

[dudewalkerbot]

To JUKIO01 This machine is made to work not so much to look cool. You are right about the Japanese HAL looking cool but it just can not keep up with us in the Olympics. We invite them to lift more than 205 pounds at the robogames event in June. We plan to. Please ask them to compete this year, we have invited them for several years and they do not show.

[littleinventorreed]

except for theirs costed millions of dollars and our costed 18,000 dollars for thirteen prototypes not one. theirs can lift 65 pounds and ours can lift 205.

[glassoid]

You can bet your left nut they'll find a practical military use for things of this nature or even much more advanced.

Many technological developments that later are used by the general consumer come first from military requirements ( Computers/interntet, etc. )

A couple of years you'll see a toned down version of Battlesuits.

[dudewalkerbot]

To glassoid, Thank you for the comment. We have talked to the Army Research Labs and they are more interested in this for rehab of the guys who are coming back paralyzed as a result of the roadside bombs. Of course we will have a cool mech version we are building for the firefighters coming out in 2010. We will demo it at the robogames when it is ready.

[braseldazzle]

@dudewalkerbot its now 2011 i dont see them

[jpnmasochist]

the basic soldier wont be wearing one of these until we get a advancement in electrical power sources. which will probably be a machine that can breath hydrogen out of the air and burn it for fuel. much like the heart and lungs do.

however, id expect some to be deployed like tanks. few in number, with a service crew nearby. probably for urban areas, and moved by vehicle for long distances.

[dojohansen123]

Ooops. There's not much hydrogen in the atmospehere, and burning hydrogen is certainly not much like "the heart and lungs do" - cells in the whole body burn glucosis (which we get from food sources) using oxygen from the air... the "fuel" is the food tho.

[jpnmasochist]

its a simplified understanding of the human body. much like a engine needs a air intake to run, the lungs do aswell. if you choke a person he will surely die in 3 minutes.

hydrogen is more abundant then oxygen. having a machine that can rapidly create liquid hydrogen and move it down to a engine that burns it for power to move a vehicle would infact be a mechanical heart and lung. lungs to make fuel, heart to give it life. i know its not the same as humans.

again simplified understanding.

[StrongBad2994]

While hydrogen is a very abundant element in the universe, it makes up only 0.00005% of the atmosphere.

[Da360k1nG]

ur cool

[StrongBad2994]

Exactly. But the process is called glucosys, and the fuel itself is glucose. That's what you meant, right?

[littleinventorreed]

the military actually created ONE. it costed 15 milliion dollars and lifts 200 pounds

[jpnmasochist]

like the orange paint. makes me think of exo-skels for heavy construction use. replacement forklifts.

manually controlled? assisting computers anywhere?

[dudewalkerbot]

To jpnmasochist, Thanks for your comment. We have had on-board computer control for the LIFESUIT system for a few years. When we do a demonstration in a public setting we disconnect the computer system and run with the backup manual controls. So far the computer walks safe for three to five steps. We hope the donations will come in to help with the new LSVIX (LIFESUIT sixteen) so it can walk unmanned.

[jpnmasochist]

i understand the design isnt very pretty to most people. it screams "functionality" however.

which is good. From my understanding, getting a machine to walk like a human is very hard and takes alot of calculations. aswell as awesome partnership with the various sensors that give it sense of balance.

since the human mind probably runs through millions of mathematical adjustments as if it were nothing on a daily basis. all that power, just to walk.

[melikesguns]

Cool Machine guys what ive noticed is...

everytime someone sees a machine or robots... the first thought is we must make it useful in combat.....

[KickaKrippled]

the U.S has this too

[didojj1]

keep this good work ~~~don't let the japanese win everything please T__T

[F45B]

Not really much of an exoskeleton...yeah I know it assists the legs but ideally it would be like wearing a vest/armor and it would assist you like that. Kind of like HAL but idk...not looking like a stormtrooper? lol

[dudewalkerbot]

to JohnnyZenith. Thanks for the comment, I have not been to Japan yet but I have seen the videos they put out and they do look great. I hope they will come to the Robot Olympics to show us how many bags of rice worth of barbells they can lift. We only lifted 205 in 2007 and are shooting for 300pounds in 2008. Please join us for robogames.

[littleinventorreed]

Daddy you rock!

[blazerblast]

well that a good day of workout

[Membrane556]

A production item would be much smaller and likely use an H2O2 mono propellant power source.

Also you can count on DRAPA and other military organizations around the world to figure out how to make it compact in their efforts to make a suit that increases a soldier's strength and endurance vs restore what was lost .

[JDCoolMan21]

And how are you supposed to function at all in a normal environment with this bulky machine? I'm not putting it down, so please don't flame me. I'm just saying is all.

[serjmaster12]

no i agree this is no exoskeleton its like hasveing a machine on you 2 help you pick shit up no thanks dont want this item

[dudewalkerbot]

Thanks for your comment. It may not look like the HALO Sparton but it was originally made for paralyzed to walk and then we hacked together the quadraplegic upper body add on for the robot olympics (robogames) take a look at the other robo games LIFESUIT videos to see me walking and jumping while in this exoskeleton.

[dudewalkerbot]

Great question. This exoskeleton was designed to walk (See the other robogames video where I demonstrate it jumping) This version of LIFESUIT 13B has an upper body accesory that was designed specifically for the robogames weight lifting event. Watch for the videos of LIFESUIT 14 (LS15) and 15. We hope LS15 will be able to lift 1400 pounds. At the June 2008 robogames we will try to lift 400 pounds and go up from there. All of our robot suits are able to walk and carry the driver.