Schematic of the extracorporeal power skeleton system.
The U.S. Army is testing a set of artificial intelligence boot system, the soldier wears, can carry a very heavy backpack walking a long distance.
The system comes with sensors and artificial intelligence systems that automatically find ways to help the wearer walk with less effort by sensing the wearer’s various body information to a built-in action-assist device that assists the wearer in walking.
The U.S. Army said the current version tested can be adjusted according to the pace of the wearer to help.
The test system uses 40 sensors distributed throughout the wearer’s body, plus a sensing helmet with 128 electrodes, together to collect information about the wearer’s body. Based on this information computer analysis adjusts the boots to better match the body’s movements. In this experiment, the testers wore the boots on a treadmill for half an hour.
Bradford (Cortney Bradford), a researcher at the U.S. Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM), said, “This not only helps us understand how the human body works with artificial intelligence systems, but this information also helps train the system.”
It’s unclear whether the boots will actually reduce the stress the backpack puts on the soldier’s body, and the researchers will analyze the data gathered from the tests over the next few months and report back at a summer conference.
“We don’t have a lot of data to compare yet.” Radford said, “Our long-term goal is to find the key biometric information and integrate them into the system to achieve control.”
Biometric information is the result of calculating various metrics or certain kinds of information about a living organism, such as fingerprints and retinas, that can be integrated into a computer for various purposes.
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