China's New Exoskeletons: Not just for Call of Duty or Tom Cruise Anymore

in the news | November 14, 2014

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Peter Warren Singer:

Powered exoskeletons have long been a staple of future warfare visions, seen in everything from movies like Aliens and Edge of Tomorrow to the latest Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare video game. Their real world equivalents have been under development in a number of US programs, ranging from Raytheon/SARCOS XOS to DARPA's current Warrior Web program. Now, China's military researchers from EEAE have debuted their own state of the art exoskeleton at Zhuhai 2014, and the PLA plans to start fielding these exoskeletons a few years from now.