The future for augmented humans: 'In five years you’ll see exoskeletons on the building site'

From paraplegics able to stand up from a wheelchair and walk again to workmen carrying heavy loads, robotics-enhanced humans are no longer just science fiction Visions of humans running around in exoskeletons able to move faster, jump higher and hit harder from films such as Tom Cruise’s Edge of Tomorrow are no longer science fiction but a hidden reality right now.
What started out as a military application helping soldiers carry large loads has spawned into applications in medicine, rehabil