This is the XOS 2, or as we’re calling it, Spartan Armour Test Suit v1.0. It’s basically an exo-suit that gives the wearer greatly enhanced strength and carrying power. While you’re limited to 3mph while wearing one, you can also, as the clip below showcases, punch through blocks of wood.
It’s got a ways to go before it’ll survive a needler round or a fall from space, but with a few hundred years up our sleeves, we’re sure science has plenty of time to get things right.
Hands On With The Sarcos XOS 2 – The Real Life Iron Man [Crunchgear]
Mr Waffle
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 4:16 PMIt beginssss.
Also, I while playing Reach last night with a friend, we laughed at how silly the technology in Reach is. I mean, they can have fusion-powered armoured suits, but in 500 years they’ve decided the already-existing automatic shotgun is inferior to a crappy pump-action with the range of a wet poodle? Sometimes I really hate compromises to a game’s universe for the sake of gameplay…
bonndock
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 4:17 PMhilarious … look out Iron Man! “Stand very still while I kill you”
Aaron
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 4:30 PMSuddenly cleaning toilets with toothbrushes and getting beaten up with soap on a ropes seems like a good trade for getting to use one of these babies.
Matt Roe
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 5:26 PMYou don’t actually fall from space in Reach… look at your back at the beginning of the cutscene, you’re wearing a “re-entry pack”. ;)
Stinky
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 6:35 PMMaster Chief does in Halo3.
Damonii Ayreborn
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 6:44 PMHalo 3, The very first level.The very first cutscene.
what happens?
You sir are a failure.
*dusts hands and walks away*
Matt Roe
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 12:11 PMHe doesn’t fall from space… he only falls 2km, from the ship, and even then he rode down a piece of metal, which is why he comes down on an angle.
You sir, are the failure. *dusts hands and walks away*
Reece Offer
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 7:19 PMDoesn’t Master Chief fall from space at the end of Halo 2/ beginning of Halo 3?
Stewart Ward
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 7:47 PMThink he was refering more to Chief’s re-entry to Earth in Halo 3
Jacques Bodourian
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 7:24 PMThis is awesome but as Ive watched and read a few things on future warfare theyve all pointed to nano bots.
Smaller, cheaper and no training required. Just send them off and watch them rip apart humans like locusts do to farms.
James Mac
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 8:20 PMThere’s no way that can end badly.
weresmurf
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 8:51 PMof course there’s no way THAT could backfire…
Cheezel
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 10:08 PMAs a man involved in such an industry (the nanoscale, not weapon technologies), so long as you’re giving a generous birth of 500 years, I’d say it’s entirely possible. Possible and “going to become actual” are a huge difference… for one, making nanobots recognise targets is a huge issue. One that’s going to take the next few centuries of clever thinking to get around…
A piece of technology like this amazes me. It’s a shame the only way it would ever get funding is if a big “For Military Use” sticker was slapped on it.