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Iron Man’s armor is not far off. This article in CNN describes a robotic exoskeleton that heightens the user’s physical strength twenty-fold. But he said Sarcos appears to have overcome the key challenge of pairing super-fast microprocessors with sensors that detect movements by the body’s joints and transmit data about them to the suit’s internal [...]