Ekso Bionics Secures Second Phase of US Special Operation Command's TALOS
  Project 
From: SRI Press Releases - 02/22/2015

Award Leverages Company's Unique Exoskeleton Expertise and Strengthens IP
Portfolio

Ekso Bionics Holdings Inc., a robotic exoskeleton company, announced that
their leading work on the first phase of the TALOS project resulted in a
grant to expand their involvement into the second phase of the project.
United States Special Operation Command (SOCOM) announced last year that it
was working to create a wearable uniform, which provides superhuman
capabilities with superior mobility and protection, for their Special
Operations Forces.

Some elements of the suit's development are more complicated than others; the
role that Ekso Bionics has been tasked with is among the most difficult — to
create a light, strong exoskeleton with a full range of motion. To address
this challenge, Ekso Bionics has teamed with Stanford University's OpenSim, a
state-of-the-art simulation software network, and the Robotics Program at SRI
International, a leading research center with a history of developing
world-changing innovations. SRI's cross-disciplinary team offers advanced
manipulation solutions and component technologies at the forefront of
robotics R&D and has played a critical role in developing companies such as
Intuitive Surgical.

Ekso Bionics designs, develops, and commercializes exoskeletons, or wearable
robots, which have a variety of applications in the medical, military,
industrial, and consumer markets. Exoskeletons are ready-to-wear,
battery-powered robots that are strapped over the user's clothing, enabling
individuals to achieve mobility, strength, and endurance not otherwise
possible.

Ekso Bionics' lead product, Ekso, is a wearable bionics suit that enables
individuals with any amount of lower extremity weakness to stand up and walk
over ground. Ekso Bionics is forging a new frontier in rehabilitation for
people living with the consequences of stroke, spinal cord injury, and other
neurological conditions affecting gait. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.sri.com/newsroom/press-releases/ekso-bionics-secures-second-phase-us-special-operation-commands-talos

Links:
Ekso Bionics
http://www.eksobionics.com/

SRI Robotics
http://www.sri.com/about/organization/engineering/robotics-program

TALOS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TALOS_(uniform)

OpenSim (with video 4:01)
http://opensim.stanford.edu/work/index.html