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Andy Meek
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I first caught up with the team at Salt Lake City-based Sarcos Robotics a couple of years ago and was impressed from the outset at the company's vision of commercializing powerful, futuristic-looking full-body robot exoskeletons to augment the work of humans. The idea being that the exoskeletons would allow their users to do more while also saving lives and preventing injuries in the workplace.
Straight away, you could start to see various applications of the exoskeletons which make the wearer look like a cross between a robot and some kind of sci-fi superhero, such as by helping to clean up debris at a disaster site, moving heavy steel beams in a factory and even letting humans venture safely into hazardous sites to perform tasks like shutting down a fuel valve. At the time, the Sarcos team told me it was working to bring its line of human-scale exoskeletons to fruition so that it could begin marketing them commercially from the end of 2019, and thanks to an unveiling today at CES 2020 in Las Vegas the company just about hit that mark.
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Meet the company that showed off a robot exoskeleton for humans today at CES originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 18:59:05 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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