U.S. Military’s ‘Iron Man’ Suit Prototype Debuts This Month

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Move over, Tony Stark — the military could soon have its own “Iron Man” suit, a robotic exoskeleton designed to augment human abilities on the battlefield.

A prototype of the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit, or TALOS, will be available later this month, and a more complete version should be ready between 2016 and 2018, according to Battelle, a science and technology research institute headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

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