Exoskeleton

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Though still in its infancy, the market for industrial exoskeletons is heating up. These wearable robots are mechanical devices worn by an operator or worker that are made to mirror the structure of the individuals limbs, joints and muscles.  The equipment am…

Standing upright and walking alone are very simple but noble motions that separate humans from many other creatures. Wearable and prosthetic technologies have emerged to augment human function in locomotion and manipulation. However, advances in wearable robo…

Mother Jones illustration; Getty Just weeks after President Trump appointed him the temporary head of the country’s consumer financial watchdog in November 2017, Mick Mulvaney announced a major personnel change. When the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau…

Standing upright and walking alone are very simple but noble motions that separate humans from many other creatures. Wearable and prosthetic technologies have emerged to augment human function in locomotion and manipulation. However, advances in wearable robo…

By Cornell University June 24, 2019CommentsA lionfish inspired the Cornell team's aquatic soft robot design. Credit: Cornell University Researchers at Cornell University have created a system of circulating liquid—"robot blood"—within robotic structures, t…

When we launched Global Defence Technology (GDT) in 2011, armed forces and the defence industry were digesting lessons learned in Afghanistan and Iraq, some of the major military projects now rolling off the production line was still on the drawing board, and…

Outdoor Retailer is a trade show held every summer where outdoor gear manufacturers come together and show off the gear they plan to bring to market in the upcoming year (2020). The big themes at the show were a move by the industry to eliminate single-use bo…

Privateer Press releases the Assault Apes expansion for Monsterpocalypse, along with Lady Doom Reavers and an epic Warlock in the Iron Kingdoms. Assault Apes are the Monsterpocalypse army that I never realized I wanted until they were here. Rocket powered ap…

This week, Oxford University announced that American billionaire and philanthropist Stephen A. Schwarzman had gifted the university with its largest cash donation ever£150 millionto fund (among other things) an institution to investigate the ethics of artific…