Making an Exoskeleton | Breakthrough

it all went down at a place called The
Guardian Center a huge installation with
a train first responders for earthquakes
terrorist situations they even have
their own subway tunnel with an exploded
train it’s the perfect place to see the
Fortis exoskeleton designed by a team of
engineers at Lockheed Martin Fortis is
an aluminum and carbon fiber frame
exoskeleton with two mechanical arms
designed to give tools a zero-gravity
weightless feel it lets workers in a
variety of industries wield heavy tools
for hours on end lady wielding this tool
is trish lker she’s the head of the
Fortis design team it’s very lightweight
it’s very easy to put on it’s very
adjustable to adjust from Keith’s body
type to my body size right so it’s one
size will generally fit all
after the Guardian guys get our test
vehicle positioned they’ll deliver a
tailor-made emergency situation
very exciting we taking bets on what’s
gonna get destroyed besides the car
here we go Oh
this will be the first time the Fortis
is being used in a first responder
situation it’s also the first time it’s
being used by the jaws of life a
35-pound tool used to pry open the doors
of crashed cars nicely done can they
work it may look simple but making an
exoskeleton that’s a help and not a
hindrance is a deceptively difficult
engineering task that it’s designed to
adjust and fit any sized person only
makes it more so anthropometry is the
measurements of the human body
everybody’s anthropometry is different
your knee may be higher or shorter than
mine you know your thigh is longer or
shorter everything’s gonna be unique no
two people are the same and so that’s
why the system has to be so adjustable
it has to be able to accommodate all
those different anthropometry
I guess creating an interface between
man and machine is what cyborgs are all
about
and I’m beginning to understand that it
may be the hardest problem in turning us
into next generation humans