Robotic suit amplifies human strength
(AP) -- Rex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and plays tennis and skis when time allows.
But the 5-foot-11, 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 claw-like metal hand extensions, he gripped a weight set's bar at a recent demonstration and knocked off hundreds of repetitions.
Once, he did 500. [link]
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