Futuristic visions of the use of HULC-exoskeleton in space exploration and nuclear accidents

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Maybe I have written about this thing before but never mind. Lockheed-Martin HULC-exoskeleton or the robot, what person would wear, and that thing gives the user super muscles. That robot is very interesting carrying system because it can allow the user to walk extremely long distance. And the thing is that the HULC-system can take a wounded user to home, even this person is unconscious. In those cases the robot or it´s computer notices, that the user is wounded by observing the nervous system and blood pressure.

If the person is wounded, this robot would start to use the pressure bandages for taking the blood leak in control and taking a person to the evacuation area. Those systems can use RTG (Nuclear battery) or fuel cells for creating the electric power for its systems. In the vacuum space would the hydraulic system replaced by using fast rotating electric motors and threaded rolls, what is easier to produce, because the hydraulic oil can leak in the vacuum space. And that´s why replacing those cylinders with threaded rolls will make those systems stronger.

But when we are thinking about the usage of the HULC in the terrestrial purposes, the most interesting thing is, that this system allows using space suits on the Earth. Those suits are extremely heavy, and they are meant used in the orbital trajectory in zero-gravity conditions. But the space suits are made for resisting the radiation, what comes from the Sun. That's why this equipment can be used in cases like nuclear accidents. If the person wears the space suit, that would make easier to control the accidents like Fukushima, where the levels of radiation are extremely high.

The use of exoskeletons would allow humans to travel planets like Venus, what surface is extremely hot. The reason, why planet Venus is an interesting target for space exploration is the atmosphere, what has the carbon monoxide as the main element. The active carbon filters would allow that the carbon can separate from the oxygen, and that allows to make base on the surface of that planet, what seems like hell, with 600 degrees surface temperature.

Sulfur acid rain is very deadly, and that's why there would be needed extremely hard and flexible technology. But if there would be traveling in some day, would the life on that planet be easy, if the colonialists or explorers need suitable technology, what would stand in the extremely high temperature and pressure. The acid rain should not make corrosion on the space suits and buildings.

The buildings of the hypothetical base on the surface of planet Venus would be made basically with the same technology, what is used in the building site. But those houses must equip with temperature resistance. And there must be the filtering system, what would separate the oxygen from the atmosphere of that hostile planet, what is the most like Earth planets in our solar system. But the atmosphere of that planet is so hostile, that it has been named as the Hell.