Fabric Muscles: A Simplified Exosuit Design

Even before Ripley battled the Xenomorph Queen in Aliens, I had fallen in love with the idea of the Exosuit. Whether that suit was in the form of a giant robot in the Robotech/Macross cartoons, or Marvel’s Iron Man, being ablet surpass my own physical possibilities with a machine has always held some appeal. Heck, I have a friend who reminds me almost yearly that I promised to build him an exosuit after seeing Ripley’s Power Loader.

An exosuit has some interesting problems from an engineering standpoint. Let’s start with an “arm”. If you wear an exo suit…