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HULC Exoskeleton From Lockheed Martin
The HULC Human Universal Load Carrier exoskeleton from Lockheed Martin was announced last week. The robotic endoskeleton is designed to augment the strength and endurance of soldiers; it transfers the load to the ground using powered titanium legs.
If you think you recognize the basic design, you're right; Lockeed Martin has licensed the Berkley Bionics BLEEX robotic endoskeleton, which was originally funded as a DARPA project.

A much earlier reference to this idea can be found in a John W. Campbell classic - The Brain Pirates, a 1938 short story.

"We have those new suits rigged with atomic-powered lifting gadgets, so that'll protect us from the weight, if what our instruments say about that world's true..."
(Read more about atomic-powered lifting suits)