RL Mechs on the Way

Gizmondo reports:

Listen up, you video-game-playing hooligans: DARPA and the U.S. military are at it again, trying to impress us, the video game playing community, with badass mech jobbers like this. This is the Berkeley lower-extremity exoskeleton (Bleex). The Bleex 1 has been in the works for a while and it seems they have begun work on the 2nd prototype, the Bleex 2. The exoskeleton system has two hydraulic leg braces that include 40 electronic sensors, a monitoring computer and an internal-combustion engine. The exoskeleton is attached to the legs of the soldier and allows for backpack loads upwards of 220 lb. to be carried with ease.