By GCN Staff
Jan 29, 2021
The Army is looking for a system that can export sensor data from soldiers’ exoskeletons to their smartphones and to dashboards leaders can use to get a better idea of warfighters’ health and locations.
Exoskeletons transfer much of the weight a soldier carries to the ground through battery-powered, titanium legs, allowing warfighters to carry extra gear with less effort, even when climbing stairs or steep terrain. Modern exoskeletons provide back and knee support, sense the user s motion and send sensor data on speed, direction and angle of movement to artificial-intelligence-powered on-board computers that control electro-mechanical actuators at the knees. According to Lockheed Martin, which designs exoskeletons for military use, they are designed for tasks that require repetitive or continuous kneeling or squatting, or lifting, dragging, carrying or climbing with heavy loads.
EnergyEne gets grant to focus on guayule latex
Nokian Tyres
Guayule is a valuable source of alternative latex. Tire makers and researchers are working find ways to cultivate the shrub.
WOOSTER, Ohio EnergyEne Inc. is receiving nearly $650,000 in grant money to help develop a viable market for latex taken from the guayule shrub grown domestically.
The Wooster firm, formed by Katrina Cornish, is receiving a new small business grant of $648,557 from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The money, offered through the Small Business Innovation Research Program, will further efforts to use the material to create gloves that protect medical workers from radiation.
Endurica L.L.C. was one of only 38 companies in the country to receive the prestigious Tibbetts Award from the U.S. Small Business Administration, and the only Ohio company to do so.