Cyborg Wednesday
SuperFlex at SRI and then Modbot at Siemens. The nine pounds of augmentation to calf and quad should allow him to run through the woods with a 100 lb backpack for two hours, drawing 60W of continuous power.
The technologies: electrolaminate clutching, magnetic encoding, twisted pair drives (translating a rotary motor to linear actuation), and special fabric meshes to distribute loads.
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