Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton
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| Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton (BLEEX) | |
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | |
| Country |  United States |
| Year | 2003 |
The Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton (BLEEX) is a
Design
The BLEEX has four hydraulically actuated joints: two at the hip, one at the knee, and one at the ankle. The BLEEX is energetically autonomous, meaning it has an on-board power supply.[2]
Development later moved to Lockheed Martin, where the device became known as the Human Universal Load Carrier, or HULC.[3][4]
Performance
The BLEEX consumes 1143 watts of hydraulic power during ground-level walking along with another 200 watts of electrical power for electronics. It can support a load of 75 kilograms (165 lb) while walking at 0.9 metres per second (3.0 ft/s), and can walk at up to 1.3 metres per second (4.3 ft/s) without any load.[2]
References
- ^ Singer, Peter W. "How to Be All That You Can Be: A Look at the Pentagon's Five Step Plan For Making Iron Man Real" Archived 2010-06-08 at the Wayback Machine, The Brookings Institution, 2 May 2008.
- ^ S2CID 17925670. Archived from the original(PDF) on 8 May 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ^ "Raytheon XOS 2 Exoskeleton, Second-Generation Robotics Suit - Army Technology". www.army-technology.com. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
- ^ "Human Universal Load Carrier (HULC) - Army Technology". www.army-technology.com. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
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