Originally posted by Jazzyguy
What I'm thinking is, the US will be able to compete with China in mass production, if the US can make this thing economically viable.
Human-shaped exoskelitons are not the kind of thing you want to have in terms of repeated, industrial heavy lifting. That's what more specialized machines are for. As powerful as this is, a repeated task is far more efficiently performed by specialized equipment than by something specifically modeled to fit and flow with humans. Most pure strength tasks are already machine-done already anyhow. You don't normally have excessively buff people hired at manufacturing plants to move 300lb tanks around. And this doesn't help at all with precision tasks; direct human hand control is far more versatile in terms of agility and opposable thumbness than implements that a pirate might use when his hand gets cut off.
This is for use when non-longterm-repetative tasks need doing with efficiency and strength.
Yeah, that's exactly what I had in mind. But Sarcos plan this armor to have dronelike capability (last part of the video). Basically it will be
a robot when the wearer not using it. 
