At the recent party for the departure of Mr. Warmth on his journey to walk the earth, Flex Solo/Kickstand mentioned wanting to stop by somewhere on his next trip to San Diego con, to check out some powered exoskeleton project. Lots of exiting links came out in the last few days related to that very topic. Some of the videos remind me of Science Fiction movies like Robocop, or AI, where they show the video of early experiments that lead to those crazy robot powered adventures. But these are real...

• Video from Cornell Labs of walking machines - via Low Life Labs. The first walking contraption shown in the video is purely kinetic - no powered movement.
• BLEEX -Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton is a device to enable someone to carry heavy loads.
• And an oldie but goody, from Y2K: gasoline-powered boots that let you run up to 25Mph, with 13 foot strides

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