We’ve been in the dawn for about 10 years now
we can all be porters now
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You’ve met the ebike, now prepare for e-jogging.
More seriously: interesting. I’ve been seeing noise about exoskeletons for yeaaaars now, and my thought for a long time has been “cool small-scale proof of concept in a limited context, call me when someone actually goes through the logistics of larger scale production and layout.” It looks like we might finally be approaching that point. These are still smaller scale deployments, but they’re actual practical use cases which are being relied on for actual real world things vs. small scale lab experiments.
Obviously this could be huge as an assistive device for people with mobility limitations, as well as an assistive device to literally everyone as needed. The real question is if it will actually become available to those who would most benefit from it, though, as we already have plenty of expensive assistive technologies and medical interventions that are out of reach for many people because being disabled is expensive and our world is inaccessible.
Mobility type tech will likely see a boom in the next few years, is my guess. Same with any other tech that helps/benefits the Boomer generation as they enter retirement/old age.
Tons of business trends and even political trends have followed the boomers life cycles due to the disproportionate chunk of the market they represent. Eg. When boomers were in their late teens/early twenties, it was the 1960s, and it was all psychedelics, free-er sexuality stuff, peace and love. As they got older and started having children, suddenly it shifted to “protect the kids from drugs, lets declare war on our old pass-times!” while also having an undercurrent of cocaine for big business career sorts. As they’ve gotten older, more programs and initiatives have focused increasingly on seniors and senior supports.
Mobility tech like this, is following the same trend.
the next few years, […] the Boomer generation as they enter retirement/old age.
You know the boomers are like 80 now, right? The only boomers not somehow retired are the ones also under the American system, who will never afford this.
I will believe it when I see it walking down the street. Powered by limitless fusion power.
Pretty solid for various handicaps and such.
I could see this helping construction workers take part of the load off of their bones. I’ve seen so many people with fucked up bodies, from running up and down roofs with heavy equipment and materials. Something like this would be great.
It wouldn’t really even need a massive battery. You could easily fit a bunch of batteries in the work van, and just swap them hourly or whatever.
Americans will do anything to avoid walking.
Kind of an ableist take, yeah?
