I thought this was pretty cool. Remember when the powered armor in Heinlein’s Starship Troopers seemed so futuristic? Well, a company is developing exoskeleton suits for the military, and though I wouldn’t want to be running around on a combat field in one right now, they can do some pretty amazing things, and are surprisingly mobile.
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