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While "Iron Man 2" sees release on Tuesday on DVD and Blu-ray, modern science is well on its way to creating exosuits not unlike the type seen in the film. CBR News was at the Raytheon Sarcos facility in Salt Lake City last week to see the unveiling of Raytheon's second generation robotic exo-skeleton, which they have dubbed the XOS 2. The suit extends the operator's endurance and strength....
For Clark Gregg, the actor who plays S.H.I.E.L.D Agent Phil Coulson in "Iron Man 2," the results of the process so far are staggering to behold. "I didn't know what to expect," he said of his reaction when he first saw the XOS 2. "I didn't know if we were going to come in and see some kind of giant freight moving version of the thing that Sigourney Weaver wore in 'Aliens.'" While that popular conception of the mobile suit as seen in "Avatar" or anime like "Gundam" still prevails in the general mindset, the XOS 2 is far more contained. "This is much more nimble and very much clearly a stepping stone to something that's going to be in use with contemporary soldiers in, I would guess, the next ten or twenty years if not sooner."
