Looks like someone has finally managed to integrate a good enough level of control to create a hydraulically actuated powered suit.
The US military has apparently awared them a $10m contract, but admit it won't be used for combat, but for loading and unloading heavy items...
It has a 30 minute battery life, more than ample for fighting a large alien...
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HA! I beat you to the punch two weeks back admittedly it was buried at the bottom of an unrelated blog post.
Anyway fascinating bit of kit the video of the thing in action are quite impressive. The whole body shadow concept using points of contact to mimic actions rather than some complex learned control the other concept units use is quite ingenious.
On an unrelated note we should probably do some tag refactoring we have quite a lot that just use slightly different spellings but are the same thing.