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Jonathan Tippett's Prosthesis, Pioneering the Giant Exoskeleton Sport
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Jun 10, 2024
Dive into the engineering marvel of the PROSTHESIS, the world's largest tetrapod exoskeleton, created by Jonathan Tippett.
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I
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wanted to build a machine that celebrated the age-old pursuit of physical mastery and
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human skill and combined it with modern technology to create an entirely new sport
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My name is Jonathan Tippett. I'm from Vancouver, British Columbia, and my Guinness World Record
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title is the world's largest tetrapod exoskeleton. Prosthesis is 3.96 meters tall, 5.1 meters
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long, and 5.51 meters wide. The heart of the machine is a 96-volt, 36-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion
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battery pack, custom-engineered. That runs two AC electric motors which drive two hydraulic
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pumps and provide fluid flow to the hydraulic cylinders which put out as much as 1,200 pounds
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of force each. The construction process was super intense. We built the entire machine
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in less than a year, and we've been testing it for three years since then. So from beginning
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to end, we're up to 13 years now. The machine is totally incapable of moving its own limbs
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As soon as you put the pilot in the machine, it connects the high-power hydraulics to the
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highly sensitive control system in the exoframe, and the positional feedback is done through
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the pilot's body. The goal was not to make a human-sized exoskeleton. I wanted to make
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a machine or a vehicle that was substantially larger than the pilot. So I think the next
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machine would be a little bit smaller and quite a bit lighter, but I kind of like the
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fact that the first prototype was a monster. If you have an idea in your mind about an
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experience you want to create for a person or a problem you want to solve, you should
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pursue it with all your heart and just stay focused. Becoming a Guinness World Record
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title holder is such an exciting privilege. When I was a kid, I used to go through the
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book and just leaf through every single page in awe, sort of dreaming of what it would be like
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to be a world record title holder. I did not set out to become a world record title holder
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when I started building this machine, but it's really gratifying for not only me, but for the
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whole team, all these people over the years that put in so much time, to know that all the effort
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that they went to has put them at the pinnacle of their class. And this is not the end, this is just
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the beginning
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