In a follow-up to this thread of January 2019,
Evan Ackerman at IEEE
Spectrum magazine reports on a demo they recently attended in Salt Lake
City of the Guardian XO exoskeleton in action.
Whilst a company employee provided a demonstration of the full suit,
the author was permitted to use a one-arm version of the technology and
reported that :-
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Originally Posted by Evan Ackerman
Still, it was an amazing sensation. The arm I tested, which Sarcos says uses the same control system as the full-body suit, was incredibly easy to operate. In terms of control, all the exo tries to do is get out of the way of your limbs: It uses force sensors to detect every motion that you make, and then moves its own limbs in parallel, smoothly matching your body with its own hardware."
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Full story, video demonstration here :-
https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/...ed-exoskeleton