Tony Stark used exotic composites , metal alloys , and other Hollywood - only make - believe materials to build his armor - plated Iron Man suit . But researchers at Harvard University ’s Wyss Institute , constrained by the limitations of world , fill a different approach with amuscle - enhancing exoskeletonthat could one twenty-four hour period be as comfortable to wear out as your favourite pair of jeans .
Working with a $ 2.6 million Ulysses Grant fromDARPA ’s Warrior entanglement Program , the Harvard research worker have been evolve their suit as a path to give soldiers enhance toughness in the field . Using a series of melodic line bladders and engineer fabrics to strengthen , support , and assist muscles , the 17 - Syrian pound courting — not include the atmosphere pump haversack — can in reality make a soldier about three times as strong . However , there are no strict character to strengthen bone , so lifting something extremely weighed down would still be dangerous .
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But as a direction to assist a soldier butt longer and farther , even over challenging terrain , the suit could one day be perfected to the point where it could be worn under a standard uniform , only come to life as it was needed . Side annotation : does anyone else think DARPA is really just developing a real life sentence superhero ? [ Wyss InstituteviaNBC News ]
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