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These boots are made for marching

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MAGAZINES Exoskeleton equips wearers with strength of a
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March 15, 2004 — 2:07 a. NEWS m.
AP Wire • BERKELEY — Move
Business • over Bionic Man and
Education • make room for BLEEX
Headlines • — the Berkeley Lower
Iraq coverage • Extremities
Local • Exoskeleton, with
National • strap-on robotic legs
Police logs • designed to turn an
Religion • ordinary human into a
Sci/tech • super strider.
Special Coverage •
State/Region •
These boots are Updated news •
ultimately intended to Vital statistics •
help people like Weather •
soldiers or firefighters World •
carry heavy loads for SPORTS
long distances. Golf Caddie •
PrepBeat.com •
SUPER TROOPER: A "The design of this
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OPINION exoskeleton really model is seen wearing the
benefits from human BLEEX (Berkeley Lower Editorial page •
intellect and the Extremity Exoskeleton). Kelly Brewer •
strength of the The strap-on robotic legs, (Editor)
machine," says developed by university Doug Soccio •
(opinion) Homayoon Kazerooni, researchers, aim to help
who directs the people like soldiers or OBITUARIES
Robotics and Human firefighters carry heavy PERSONALS Engineering loads for long distances.
ARCHIVES Laboratory at the
University of California OUTDOORS
at Berkeley. FEATURES
Comics.com • The exoskeleton consists of a pair of mechanical metal Currents • leg braces that include a power unit and a backpacklike D.A.T.E. •
frame. The braces are attached to a modified pair of Entertainment •
Army boots and are also connected, although less Home & Garden •
rigidly, to the user's legs. Photo galleries •
Recreation Guide •
Scanner • More than 40 sensors and hydraulic mechanisms
Snapshot in time • function like a human nervous system, constantly
Special publications • calculating how to distribute the weight being borne
Travel • and create a minimal load for the wearer.
Welcome Guide •
Where we live • "There is no joystick, no keyboard, no push button to COLUMNISTS drive the device," says Kazerooni, a professor of
Doni Greenberg • mechanical engineering. "The pilot becomes an integral
(News) part of the exoskeleton."
COMMUNITY
SERVICE CENTER In lab experiments, says Kazerooni, testers have
walked around in the 100-pound exoskeleton plus a 70- N.I.E.
pound backpack and felt as if they were carrying just
Search five pounds.
Archives Eventually, the device could help rescuers haul heavy
Yellowpages equipment up high-rise buildings or turn tired troops
into striding super soldiers.
Google Web
What it won't do is turn you into a Borg, the gadget-
happy gladiators of "Star Trek" fame.
MyRedding email
"The exoskeleton is not going to magically transform
Login people into killing machines," says Kazerooni, known to
his students as Professor Kaz. "They're really good, it
turns out, at enabling firefighters, soldiers, post-disaster Password
rescue crews to carry heavy loads over great distances
for hours."
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So, no cyborg cops. But at least you get Terminator
Opinion Poll togs.
Do you think the trout
Video of the BLEEX in action, which can be viewed season for the upper
online at me.berkeley.eduhelbleex.htm, shows a steel-Sacramento River
spiked symbiosis of man and machine, marching about should be year-round?
to the techno-industrial drone of grinding motors. The
Yes. next step for the BLEEX team is making the power
No. source quieter and stronger and miniaturizing
components. I don't know/care.
BLEEX is funded by the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency, the Pentagon research and
development arm, and was among the projects being
showcased at a DARPA tech symposium this week in
Anaheim.
The project is one of scores in the field of robotics,
which ranges from industrial machines that assemble
cars to orthotics, surgical devices that activate or
supplement weakened limbs or functions.
Excitement about robotics was fanned by last week's
DARPA-sponsored Mojave Desert race for fully
autonomous vehicles, and the field is making strides
worldwide.
In Japan, a leader in robot research, Sony Corp. has
developed a child-shaped walking robot, known as
Qrio, and Honda Motor Co. has also developed a
walking, talking humanoid robot. This spring, some
Japanese companies plan to start marketing a "robot
suit," a motorized, battery-operated device intended to
help old and infirm people move around.
The current favorite in the DARPA race came out of
Carnegie Mellon University, where professor Matthew
Mason is working on intelligent robots including the
Mobipulator, which uses its wheels to move things as
well as for locomotion.
"There's just too much to do," says Mason. "Every time
that there is an advance in computing, there are just so
many more things that it becomes possible to do.
Robotics is really about interfacing computers to the
physical world so that their sensors give them a better
concept of what's going on around them — they can
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make interesting things happen instead of just sitting
there in their little beige boxes."
Kazerooni isn't offering test drives of the exoskeleton.
But if he were, Mason would be interested.
"It looks really exciting," says Mason. "I'd like to try it on
myself."
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