“We looked at how Daewoo, one of the biggest tech firms in Korea, has developed exoskeletons that are used in the ship yards – they allow dock workers to lift 500lbs.
Meanwhile, the exoskeletons worn by soldiers in the game, which players are able to upgrade with a range of performance-enhancing features, come from a more benign source. The North American market alone will be worth $10bn by 2020 according to MicroMarket Monitor. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and other major manufacturers are all building systems. However, pulsed energy, microwave, laser and sonic weapons have been in development for decades, and research is ongoing. Lasers are the subject of real-world research for military applications. The fictional EM1 shoots energy beams instead of traditional bullets.
