Amplified Mobility Platform, Avatar Image: 20th Century Fox The suits aren’t fully armored, but they provide quite a bit of protection to their wearers, and can be used in a variety of environments, from the African plains to high above the Arctic Circle.
They also have the incredibly creepy side effect of being able to walk their dead wearers back to base on their own after a battle. But it also connects to neural laces implanted in their heads and links them to one another, making the entire unit a formidable adversary. These soldiers head into the field with an impressive kit: an exoskeleton that lets them carry heavy loads and weapons into combat. In her military science fiction trilogy The Red ( The Red: First Light, The Trials, and Going Dark), Linda Nagata introduces readers to a group of specialized soldiers under the command of Lieutenant James Shelley: a linked combat squad. LCS Exoskeleton, Linda Nagata’s The Red trilogy Image: Saga Press, But they’re just a bit shy of being proper power armor, and it feels like they could stand to get some better head protection. These combat jackets provide both extra strength, some armor, and heavy weapons for the soldiers that wear them. Combat Jackets, Edge of Tomorrowĭoug Liman’s 2014 film Edge of Tomorrow features humanity fighting off an alien invasion, using heavy-duty exoskeletons called Combat Jackets to help soldiers on the ground run faster and carry heavy weapons into battle. The suits help speed up the game, and allow for plenty of add-ons to go into battle with. The game’s characters are equipped with Exo Suits, a frame that allows them to jump incredible heights, punch through doors, and more, which gives them incredible power and freedom of movement on the battlefield. Set in a near future where private military corporations wage war on behalf of the governments of the world, 2014’s Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare prominently features exoskeletons that enhance a player’s movements in the game. Exo Suits, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare These suits don’t provide much armor, giving an opponent plenty of weak points to strike, and they’re drilled right onto a subject’s bones, meaning that you can’t easily take them off. The Exo Suit from the film has its roots in real-world technology, and while these might have been designed for work, the film’s characters use them to give them an edge in a fight. When Matt Damon’s character Max tells a crime boss that he’s willing to storm the film’s titular space station, he’s outfitted with an exoskeleton that’s grafted to his arms and legs, while the film’s villain, Kruger has a more advanced version of his own. In his 2013 film Elysium, Neill Blomkamp populates his world with plenty of combat robots, but humans have their own augments as well.
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It’s a glorified fork lift, and it’s pretty slow and cumbersome. It’s designed to allow workers to quickly and easily move heavy pieces of equipment and cargo around.īut while Ripley demonstrated that it can be a formidable weapon in the right hands, it’s not really designed for fighting. The Caterpillar P-5000 Work Loader from James Cameron’s Aliens is an iconic piece of sci-fi hardware, and we’ll probably see something similar in the real world before too much longer. Caterpillar P-5000 Work Loader, Aliens Image: 20th Century Fox Here’s 18 examples, ranked from what you wouldn’t want to run into in a fight to what you really don’t want to run into on the battlefield.
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Given those military roots, however, it shouldn’t come as any surprise that science fiction authors, game developers, or movie directors will use some sort of exoskeleton or suit of powered armor for a pivotal battle sequence - starting with Robert Heinlein’s classic novel Starship Troopers all the way up to games like Halo or films like Iron Man.īut not every set of power armor is equal, and there are some that might be better to come up against than others. She mentioned that while these devices have their roots in military technology, designers are hoping that they can be used to help help workers on the job or prevent them from getting injured, or assist the disabled move around.
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Recently, my colleague Lauren Goode finished out the second season of her series Next Level by checking out the promising future of exoskeletons in the workplace.
They enhance the abilities of futuristic soldiers on the battlefield, giving them an edge against their enemies. Power armor and exoskeletons are a staple in science fiction.
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