You never know what technology is going to serve up next in a world of driverless cars, hand-held supercomputers and skyrocketing survival rates for diseases once thought incurable. You never know when a robotics team at Berkeley funded by the United States Defence Department will invent an exoskeleton suit to enable military personnel to heft hundreds of pounds of gear over long distances and then adapt their research to the civilian marketplace to get people in wheelchairs, who are never supposed to walk again, walking, standing, reaching out and hugging the people they love most, while looking them in the eye.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/03/25 ... oskeleton/
The US Army has been working on these things for decades, now they are becoming a reality.
http://youtu.be/cTYBU4-H9VQ
