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Author: kylerandor
Date: May 24, 2008 00:41

Source: cnn
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Robotic suit amplifies human strength [art.suit.ap. jpg]
Rex Jameson stretches in a robotic soldier suit that can multiply
its wearer's strength and endurance.

(AP) -- Rex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and plays tennis
and skis when time allows.

But the 5-foot-11, 180-pound software engineer is lucky if he
presses 200 pounds -- that is, until he steps into an
"exoskeleton" of aluminum and electronics that multiplies his
strength and endurance as many as 20 times.

With the outfit's claw-like metal hand extensions, he gripped a
weight set's bar at a recent demonstration and knocked off
hundreds of repetitions.

Once, he did 500.
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