exoskeleton technologies is a program
where we’re working on developing
exoskeletons for different applications
National Geographic contacted us about
participating in their breakthrough
series on a show called more than human
they asked us to bring Fortis
exoskeleton and demonstrate some of the
applications Fortis was designed to help
the user take heavy weight off their
body where they experience muscle
fatigue for holding up heavy tools there
are tools that I can barely hold up and
if I wear Fortis I’m able to hold that
tool up for as long as I need to hold it
up the tool is basically floating in the
air you are not holding the weight
you’re just maneuvering it we were
working on several different
applications to help the military carry
heavy loads long distances we also
determined there was an application for
industrial workers and shipyards who
hold up heavy tools for long periods of
time Fortis is an unpowered exoskeleton
it is meant to feel like just an
extension of your body it’s supposed to
be very natural and easy to use where
your joints are there’s a joint on the
exoskeleton those joints are designed to
move in the same manner that your joint
moves there are also features in it that
prevent you from injuring yourself you
can’t overextend your knee so Fortis
does not allow you to do that therefore
the suit can’t get caught and then pull
your leg with it one of the requirements
of Fortis was to make it very easily
adjustable for different range of body
types and sizes so we have made the legs
just very easy to adjust on or off we’ve
also made it very easy to get in and out
of that way if there is a situation for
an industrial worker that they needed to
take for – soft very quickly they can
easily get out of the suit it feels very
natural to put it on and walk with it as
we’ve been developing Fortis we’ve been
getting a lot of calls from different
people with ideas for different
applications so we’re finding all sorts
of ideas that we never even thought of
and that’s how we got here today to
demonstrate Fortis in the first
responder application we believe
exoskeleton technologies can be adapted
for many different applications Fortis
isn’t meant to replace workers it’s
meant to help workers it’s meant to
improve their quality of life by
reducing
fatigue that they feel at the end of the
day they no longer have to go home and
just crash on the couch they can now go
to their kids sports game or do whatever
they want to do after work because
they’re not so tired from having held
that heavy tool up all day long
where we’re working on developing
exoskeletons for different applications
National Geographic contacted us about
participating in their breakthrough
series on a show called more than human
they asked us to bring Fortis
exoskeleton and demonstrate some of the
applications Fortis was designed to help
the user take heavy weight off their
body where they experience muscle
fatigue for holding up heavy tools there
are tools that I can barely hold up and
if I wear Fortis I’m able to hold that
tool up for as long as I need to hold it
up the tool is basically floating in the
air you are not holding the weight
you’re just maneuvering it we were
working on several different
applications to help the military carry
heavy loads long distances we also
determined there was an application for
industrial workers and shipyards who
hold up heavy tools for long periods of
time Fortis is an unpowered exoskeleton
it is meant to feel like just an
extension of your body it’s supposed to
be very natural and easy to use where
your joints are there’s a joint on the
exoskeleton those joints are designed to
move in the same manner that your joint
moves there are also features in it that
prevent you from injuring yourself you
can’t overextend your knee so Fortis
does not allow you to do that therefore
the suit can’t get caught and then pull
your leg with it one of the requirements
of Fortis was to make it very easily
adjustable for different range of body
types and sizes so we have made the legs
just very easy to adjust on or off we’ve
also made it very easy to get in and out
of that way if there is a situation for
an industrial worker that they needed to
take for – soft very quickly they can
easily get out of the suit it feels very
natural to put it on and walk with it as
we’ve been developing Fortis we’ve been
getting a lot of calls from different
people with ideas for different
applications so we’re finding all sorts
of ideas that we never even thought of
and that’s how we got here today to
demonstrate Fortis in the first
responder application we believe
exoskeleton technologies can be adapted
for many different applications Fortis
isn’t meant to replace workers it’s
meant to help workers it’s meant to
improve their quality of life by
reducing
fatigue that they feel at the end of the
day they no longer have to go home and
just crash on the couch they can now go
to their kids sports game or do whatever
they want to do after work because
they’re not so tired from having held
that heavy tool up all day long
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