Robotics Technology Center

Exoesqueleto: Militaries Aid for Hardwork

It looks like Robocop has finally found a match of his own kind. Robot soldiers are getting a lot of media reviews lately, maybe because, they can be valuable substitutes in the future, to human soldiers, which are vulnerable to pain and stress.

Exoesqueleto is the spanish name of an external robotic skeleton soldier. It was developed by SARCO for the U.S. Army. The main purpose of which is to carry out tasks that involves lifting heavy equipments like loading of missiles to aircraft and vice versa.

Exosqueleto is a skeleton in which a human soldier fits himself in. Whatever the human soldier wants to do, the robot mimics everything.

During an experiment, Exosqueleto was made to perform various tasks which included running, playing basketball and several rounds of lifting 72-pound steel boxes. The tasks were endless but the robot soldier seemed to have a super strength, like Superman himself.

Initial release of Exosqueleto involves human intervention, but according to SARCO, the next military robot skeleton will become autonomous with a personality and a costume designed for its own.

Watch Exosqueleto performs tasks seamlessly.