It’s being developed by a Panasonic subsidiary called ActiveLink, who say they don’t expect to see it being used for things like disaster relief efforts until around 2015. At the moment it has an aluminium-allow frame weighing around 227kg, so hopefully they can shrink it down a bit. Very cool, though. Check out the vid: [Mainichi (translated) via PinkTentacle]
Hasn't the american military come up with something much smaller and easier to run around with? The exoskeleton or something.