AMPED UP
TO THE MAX
PREPARE YOURSELF FOR TOMORROW
One of the biggest crowd-pullers
at CES (the biggest new tech
showcase of the year) was
this prototype of a huge robotic
exoskeleton. Built by Furrion
Robotics, the Prosthesis weighs
more than three tonnes.
The 4.2m-tall, 4.8m-long
mech is operated by a humanpilot, just like the AMP suits
in the movie Avatar – but its
raison d’être is to race other
mechs, rather than obliterating
blue-skinned aliens.
Although, of course,
that will require someone
to build another mech for
it to race against...Avatar technology comes
to the real world
CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW 2017 SPECIAL
INNOVATIONS
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