Robotic Legs For Firefighters

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Move over Bionic Man and make room for BLEEX -- the Berkeley Lower Extremities Exoskeleton, with strap-on robotic legs designed to turn an ordinary human into a super strider.

Ultimately intended to help people like soldiers or firefighters carry heavy loads for long distances, these boots are made for marching.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/03/10/human.e...n.ap/index.html

[Guest]

can you re-check that link it dosent seem to work, it would be interesting to see.

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Link was fine, CNN seems to have taken the story offline.

Here's the orignal article, but from MSNBC.com:

http://livevideo.msnbc.com/id/4499831