![]() One Guardian XO costs $100,000 per year to rent, and the company will be shipping its first batch of alpha units to customers (including both heavy industry and the U.S. It takes seconds to put on and take off, and Sarcos says new users can be trained to use the system in minutes. The Guardian XO is fully electrical and untethered with a runtime of 2 hours, and hot-swappable battery packs can keep it going for a full work day. While wearing it, a human can lift 200 pounds ( 90 kilograms) while feeling like they’re lifting just 10 lbs ( 4.5 kg). The Sarcos Guardian XO is a 24-degrees-of-freedom full-body robotic exoskeleton. GIF: Evan Ackerman/IEEE Spectrum How the Guardian XO Works Sarcos says this task usually requires three people. Guardian XO operator Fletcher Garrison demonstrates the company’s exosuit by lifting a 125-pound payload. “If you were to ask the question, What does 30 years and $300 million look like,” Wolff tells us, “you're going to see it downstairs.” But now, Sarcos is ready to unveil the prototype of the Guardian XO, a strength-multiplying exoskeleton that’s about to begin shipping.Īs our introductory briefing concludes, Sarcos CEO Ben Wolff is visibly excited to be able to show off what they’ve been working on in their lab. Sarcos has been developing powered exoskeletons and the robotic technologies that make them possible for decades, and the lobby of the company’s headquarters is a resting place for concepts and prototype hardware that’s been abandoned along the way. And late last month, Sarcos invited us to Salt Lake City, Utah, to see what that future looks like. ![]() One year ago, for IEEE Spectrum’s special report on the Top Tech for 2019, Sarcos Robotics promised that by the end of the year they’d be ready to ship a powered exoskeleton that would be the future of industrial work.
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