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USSOCOM Awards Contract to Sarcos Robotics for Delivery of Full-Body, Autonomously Powered Robotic Exoskeleton

SALT LAKE CITY and BELLEVUE, Wash. – March 18, 2019 – Today, Sarcos Robotics, a global leader in robotic systems that augment, rather than replace humans working in the industrial, public safety and military sectors, announced that it has been awarded a contract by the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) to deliver a pre-production version of its Guardian™ XO® (“XO”) full-body, autonomously powered robotic exoskeleton. The XO is capable of operating for up to eight hours per battery charge, while walking at three miles per hour and carrying up to 200 pounds of payload. With the ability to “hot swap” rechargeable batteries in the field, XO run-time is essentially unlimited.

The USSOCOM XO contract follows Sarcos’ recent announcements regarding collaborations with both the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy to develop and evaluate variations of the Guardian™ XO® for use cases specific to these services. With 17 years of development efforts and more than $175 million invested in R&D, Sarcos has been laser-focused on ensuring the Guardian XO Max is safe, intuitive and power efficient. Sarcos recently shared significant power and performance enhancements to the XO, including significant improvements in power consumption, control system functionality and load transfer.

11 Responses to “USSOCOM Awards Contract to Sarcos Robotics for Delivery of Full-Body, Autonomously Powered Robotic Exoskeleton”

  1. jbgleason says:

    “The XO is capable of operating for up to eight hours per battery charge, while walking at three miles per hour and carrying up to 200 pounds of payload.”

    I thought that was called a SF candidate.

    • Vic Toree says:

      My company’s last XO couldn’t operate that long and all he did was just sit behind a desk pounding coffee and bitching about his impending 3rd divorce.

  2. Southern Shredder says:

    SOCOM apparently now hiring all the AutoBots up in here

  3. SamHill says:

    Finally! The power loader that Lt. Ripley used to beat up the queen from Aliens is approaching reality!

  4. CapnTroy says:

    I can drive that loader, I have a class-2 rating…

  5. Future Mech Pilot says:

    This is it gentleman. In the coming years this tech will progress and we’ll finally have battle mechs!

  6. the hun says:

    What i miss:
    Can holders!
    The engineers forgot this importend thing and we need an Alien queen…
    Rami Malek ?!
    Melania?!
    Dame Edna?!

  7. Druid says:

    And what do I see in the future ? more likely the hover chairs from WAL-E with weapons mounted and big fat guys piloting them !