Soldiers : Your underclothing of the future will do more than forbid crotch rot . It ’ll protect you from injuries , supervise your vitals , and even “ harvest ” your Department of Energy . That is , if a raw project from Darpa ’s Defense Sciences Office act out as planned . That ’s an example , to the right hand , of what Darpa retrieve its “ Warrior Web ” onesie might expect like .
So far , the project is still in the pass - a - cartoon - with - a - six - pack - in - tights stage – a farseeing way off from the “ adaptive , compliant , nearly gossamer , quasi - combat-ready joint support suit , ” which can “ palliate musculoskeletal injury make by distinct dynamic events while maintain soldier performance , ” dreamed up by Darpa . Anintroductory meeting of likely researchersis typeset for mid - October .
Musculoskeletal injuries ( a blanket term for anything from pain because of overuse to stress break and joint derangements ) are a real problem in the military . According toa 2010 study , there were 743,547 injury - pertain musculoskeletal conditions amongst military personnel in 2006 . In 2004 , 44 percent of military fatality leave from unintentional harm . These Achilles tendon strain , torn semilunar cartilage , and raw labrums slow our soldiers down , rendering them less good and place them in more danger .
But protecting their knees is just the start of what Warrior Web aims to do . Darpa says it ’s looking for experts in the following fields for the Warrior WWW :
• Joint support and musculoskeletal accidental injury extenuation
• Dynamics of soldier natural process and international payload
• Biomechanical and joint modeling and testing
• effective and compliant propulsion
• vigour re-formation and harvesting
• Dynamic structural stiffness tuning
• Adaptive sensing and controller for biomechatronics
• Materials , fabrics , and social system to raise the man - to - equipment user interface
waitress – “ musculoskeletal injury mitigation ” ? “ DOE regeneration ” ? Is this exalt distich of long underwear presuppose to reduce inflammation and mend focus fault while it pump B-12 ( or maybe speed ) into the rip stream ? Sounds , uh , challenging . And if I were a soldier , I ’d be wary of mould any garment that is blend to “ harvest ” anything from me .
This is n’t the military ’s firstcrazy - suit pipe dream . ( In 2003 , MIT bragged that they would soon show usa nanotech - made muscle suitthat can heal and deflect bullet train . In 2010 , Lockheed Martin and Raytheon each showed off hydraulic - poweredexoskeleton suitsdesigned to help soldier carry heavy encumbrance while putting minimal strain on their join and ligaments . And of course , let us never forget thesuper - speciality cyborg penguin suitof 2008 . ) So Warrior Web may not be an totally original construct , but it ’s for certain the most challenging . After all , it ’s basically underwear with strengthening and heal powers .
This military post originally appeared onWired ’s Danger Room.Wired.com has been expanding the hive mind with technology , science and geek cultivation news since 1995 .
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