Protonex's fuel cell for human weight-bearing exoskeleton (HULC) continuous supply 3 days

January 26th, 2010   28 views
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We hope at the next CES show to spend such a good thing, but the Lockheed Martin company, in fact only the U.S. military to provide such products. The company's human weight-bearing exoskeleton (HULC), was originally proposed by Berkeley Bionics launched in 2008, this week there has been significant progress in this technology, it secured a Protonex the company's fuel cell technical support. What is the goal then? Is equipped with the battery after, HULC will be able to continue to work longer hours, and up to 72 hours. Modern soldiers often need to carry more equipment, all of which need more and more physical, With this battery, the soldiers can take less battery, but can carry more equipment. It is not known when this device will be applied to actual combat, but anyway, this is not that we can know a secret.

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