Makers of robotic outfit hope to give Army a boost
Rex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and he plays tennis and skis when time allows. But
the 5-foot-11-inch, 180-pound software engineer is lucky if he presses 200 pounds — that is, until he steps into an “exoskeleton” of aluminum and electronics that multiplies his strength and endurance as many as 20 times.
With the outfit’s clawlike metal hand extensions, he gripped a weight set’s bar at a recent demonstration and knocked off hundreds of repetitions. Once, he did 500.
“Everyone gets bored much more quickly than I get tired,” Jameson said.
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