Exoskeleton

In my freshman year of high school, some friends from robotics and myself decided we wanted to continue working on projects outside of the robotics season. We ultimately decided to work on what had been a running joke up until that point: that we were going to build exoskeletons to take over the world. Instead, we scraped together a prototype that was only capable of lifting small loads, but the concept and base mechanics were promising. This prototype was built over the course of roughly two months of meeting every other weekend. The system was powered by two pneumatic pistons.