Lightweight, Soft Exosuit Aims to Prevent Musculoskeletal Injury in Warfighters

Suit conforms to the body, allowing for natural joint movement while augmenting effectiveness

Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering is continuing development of a lightweight, soft exosuit for DARPA’s Warrior Web program, which is aimed at creating technologies that mitigate musculoskeletal injuries among warfighters while improving performance.

The Wyss team is seeking to integrate component technologies developed in separate Warrior Web efforts into a prototype suit that offers expanded capabilities.

DARPA plans to test the final suit in appropriate mission profiles under realistic loads to evaluate performance.

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