What would you do if you were a foot or two taller? How about if you had an arm span two times as wide as you have now?
A group of Japanese engineering students asked themselves the same question and built a wearable chassis that does just that. Their project is called “Sukerutonikusu”, which we believe roughly translates to: “This is freaking awesome, we’ll take two!”. [Thopter] however informs us that it translates to “Skeletonics”, a fusion of the words “skeleton” and “mechanics”.
The suit is comprised of lightweight aluminum pipes and sheeting, allowing for it to be powered solely by the person wearing it. Stepping inside the chassis looks like it lifts the wearer about a foot and a half off the ground, while increasing their wingspan by nearly 6 feet! In the video embedded below you can see that while in the suit, the wearer is quite agile, and even has the ability to run at a decent tick.
If this ever comes to market, you can bet we will buy one in a heartbeat – until then, we will have to settle for making RoboCop sounds as we walk about the office.
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Presumably you mean “comprises” or “composed of”
Is it just me or does this look like it just needs some hydrolics and yellow paint and you have the CAT heavy-lift suits from Alien 2?
impressive!!
Art imitates art, imitates art.
When I first saw “Aliens” and Ripley comes out dressed up as the Macross I thought that Cameron was ripping off the Japanese giant-robot.
Now it’s come full circle and the Japanese have ripped off Cameron’s Ripley fork-lift. All they need is the “Get away from her you Bitch!” line.
im ashamed of you had. why wait for it to come to market, the point is that you could build one of them for $200, and it would be much more fun
Awesome! Should be relatively easy to turn this into a powered suit. It looks like an early version of the exo-suit from Alien(s?).
Also look at the guy’s face in that pic. Caption:
“Yes, I have the POWARRR!” XD
Very interesting, I wonder if you spent enough time in this that your brain would adapt to the extended limbs, then what happens when you get out?
Also, this would be a great suit for the chr’s in amusment parks.
*generic Aliens comment*
The street chasing scene is frikking awesome!
Can imagine that the mechanical disadvantage of the pantograph design will make to use it very fatiguing quickly. I would like to see one with a full body shell and lipo powered. That would be just mind blowing to watch live on the street.
add some kind of power to the suit and a skin and you have yourself your every own mini giant fighting robot.
Twice the arm span with half the strenght lol.
And to go along Bob, I can re-design the whole 3D model if you guys team up and fund me for the time invested ;p. Then we’ll all have our own open source exosqueleton =P
btw,I’m serious about modelling it ;p
Looks excellent! Hope they built some range limitation into the frame…otherwise you trip and, oops, there goes your leg.
Looks like pvc not aluminum for parts of it.
Add a bell rocket belt and I’ll take mine in British racing green!
awesome video. :)
Part 2: Replace the person with a series of high torque servos. Make a secondary suit with rotory encoders to be worn by the person controlling it remotely. (Why is it that the first place I always go is RC?)
It looks like a blast. I also wondered about the strength ratio.
lol now the door blocking is something I could totally imagine seeing them use something like this for in tokyo, osaka or just about anywhere in japan
Leverage Fail; Costuming Win.
So does this bring them up to normal height then?
i dunno, i first thought of theose mechs used to defend zion when i first saw this…
Aliens Cargo Mech:
http://starsmedia.ign.com/stars/image/article/831/831290/aliens-ripley-powerloader_1193711350.jpg
Matrix APU Mech:
http://www.scifi3d.com/images/wip/1503_src_matrix_apu-3_13.jpg
Not bad, they made some sense with PVC roll cage and aluminum framing where it counts. Although arming it with a soda bottle rocket in the right arm is a bit funny. Must have left a mess.
It’s rather hard to tell from the video, but is the wearer carrying the entire weight of the torso/arms on his own? I would have expected them to build supports from the leg framework to the torso to carry the weight…
That would be a little less than a quarter of normal power in the arms. inverse square law + the weight of the thing.
also, most entertaining video i’ve seen in a minute.
+Air Muscles….please
As for all the leverage fail comments,
Passive-Mech
This is a japanese whole body fitness machine….
A few months of training and the Operator’s newly muscled physique will allow the mech normal human strength..
This looks like it would be fun to use.
Running looks a bit awkward, maybe some shock absorption in the ankles/feet would make it a bit smoother?
Add some air muscles or fast-acting hydraulics to the limbs and have a real patlabor. :)
Cool stuff! I’ll wait for the model with the chain gun and rocket launcher before I order :P
Is the jetpack optional?
Normal Human strength?
Golly. ;)
I would like four of them please.
(Two for fighting. Two for parts.)
Never let Japanese students smoke weed while watching Aliens.
best costume party outfit ever.
Hello HAD…
are you aware of SI units? This is not an assy request from a European monkey…
From wikipedia…
In the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, the United States government designated the metric system of measurement as “the preferred system of weights and measures for U.S. trade and commerce”.
If you do let me join ’em.
I want to try that suit.
(ffft)
torwag: the US gov’t can decide that metric may be “preferred” for gov’t use, but until the citizenry decide that it’s also preferred for private use, feet, yards, miles, etc. will remain in use.
If you’ll allow a personal anecdote, I’ve heard of a new US company preparing to do business with a Canadian company. The US company went to the trouble to convert everything in their presentation to metric for the convenience of the Canadians. However, as they were giving their presentation, they noticed the Canadians in the audience pulling out calculators and notepads, converting everything back to imperial so they could understand it ^_^.
If a system is widely understood, there’s no need to make unnecessary changes simply to “fit in”.
Sorry, to glance over how awesome this is, and focus on the first commenter. Read twice before jumping in on supposed spelling errors.
Presumably you mean “comprises” or “composed of”
Posted at 8:06 am on Mar 9th, 2011 by benboy00
Read it again my friend. It says Comprised.
comprised
past participle, past tense of com·prise (Verb)
1. Consist of; be made up of: “the country comprises twenty states”.
2. Make up; constitute
Nothing wrong with his spelling or grammar, even if it is different to what you would prefer, it is still correct.
sugoi neh!!!!
haha love it, looks like the chassis from a
warhammer dreadnought, and the basis for fallout
3 power armour. Along with the servo controlled
walking assist japanese invention a little while
ago.
I have long predicted that the amount of giant robo-suits in Japanese anime would lead to a new generation of engineering students trying to build them for real.
Smug mode on :)
And re: the SI measurements thing, it’s different over here in the uk, basically, everybody understands miles AND kilometres, and will use which ever system fits better for the dimension they’re describing, to the point of describing a plank an inch thick and a meter long…
If I’m designing something, or writing measurements down I’ll always use SI though, partly because that’s what I learnt as a physicist, but mainly because it makes the maths easier :)
Whatevers, learn both, and be prepared to convert for those that don’t is my take on it.
ME WANT.
Looks like it need some impact protection though (both from running and accidents, falls..)
Not a Power Loader, but a Landmate. The Power Loader has the users arms inside the suits arms, the Landmate has separate slave-arms and sub-arms.
finally, an Appleseed-related comment, the obvious inspiration for these japanese students. Want to see that exoskeleton with Guge-D armor, would make an awesome cosplay.
DO WANT! DO WANT SO HARD!
BadWolf, I will donate to your cause. Just gimme a pot to drop the money in.
imagine being in one of these for a couple of months. when we take it of, everything we do feels like.. so easy because of muscle adaptation to the extra load. suddenly can feel like superhuman!
It’d be cool if someone turned up some instructions/schematics in english, maybe one can really build one himself.
I wonder if you could replace the frame parts with wood (wood tools beeing more availible)
I also understand the upper/torso part to be independent of the lower/legs part (at least from one pic, it’s not clear to me from the video).
I see the rationale for this, the spine has more axes of movement the an armo or leg. However, in case you trip, the whole weight of the upper part has to be taken by you (not the exoskel structure)
Anyway, I totally see this as an instrument for weird sports. Mecha soccer, anyone?
It looks like a MGS Gekko. Pretty cool though.
Aluminum Crutches , PVC pipe , Bike cables , White Belts , seems super easy enough.
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I like how they went the extra mile and did the legs too, but I’d rather see it with those Leaf Springs that amputated runners use. A prosthetic bouncy foot thats 2X the size as regular ones.
I want to see instructions for an all PVC pipe version. (- minus bolts, wire)
What it really needs is a Nice Robo HEad with glowing red eys/spot lights.
Great idea! Now add power and controls so
someone wearing the suit could run into
the rubble after an earthquake and save
lives. Run unit from an umbilical cord
attached to an ATV so it could get close
to the action. Firemen, policemen,
paramedics, etc. could rescue people.
Think of a fireman running into a burning
house and saving lives!
How can I get the plans of it?
A Creat Suit to used milatary force important change guns,missail,beam