Oh yeah, this’ll go someplace
So, this thingy is pretty cool, but everyone is awfully ahead of themselves.
They like to act as though this hasn’t been possible for the last… uhh… 15 years. Let’s go with 15, though I suspect it’s much longer. Sure, components are lighter, electronics more advanced, and so on, but the actual mechanism isn’t complex.
So, do I have a grand conspiracy theory about how it’s repressed by the evil “thems” out there? Good lord no, I realized long ago that anything appearing to be a conspiracy is likely greed combined with horrible incompetence. No, the trick here is that you are diverted away from one massive limitation and one minor one.
Massive: Power. You think a dude takes a lot of energy to keep going, try a servo driven frame. Homie would either end up carrying around a diesel generator, which I hear is great, plugged into the transport he’s servicing, or a dense battery pack that’ll have to be changed out frequently and explode if it ever shorts. Regardless, this item alone takes what is being presented as a general purpose solution, and delivers a very specific, limited solution.
Minor: 200 pounds. Everything he did was a max of 200 pounds, so I can only assume that this is the reasonable limit for the frame as it currently is. This isn’t to say that this is bad or anything, but again we hit a limiting factor. So loading bombs or missiles will still take multiple people.
So, what is it exactly? It can’t lift enough to replace a forklift, is strongly tethered to either a real power tether or a supply line, and undoubtedly costs a mint to produce. In short, it’s one of the many ways to arrive at vaporware.
Will we see something like this one day? Sure, after this company has burned into the ground and someone picks it up for a song you’ll see some implementations of it.