Guardian™ XO® Robot Fact Sheet

About the Guardian XO Exoskeleton Robot

Sarcos’ Guardian XO robot is the first all-electric, battery-powered, full-body industrial exoskeleton robotic system that enhances human productivity while keeping workers safe from strain or injury. Building off of Sarcos’ award-winning XOS-2 exoskeleton robot, Sarcos’ Guardian XO robot represents the next step in the evolution of high-performance, highly dexterous, mobile robots. An early prototype was selected by Time Magazine as the Innovation of the Year.

Sarcos’ Guardian XO robot enables workers to perform hours of physical activity, including repetitively lifting and manipulating heavy or awkward objects that would otherwise be impossible for a single human to perform. The Guardian XO robot is capable of repeatedly lifting and manipulating up to 200 lbs. without fatigue or strain for up to an eight-hour work session. The human operator bears none of the weight of the exoskeleton or its payload, and it can be donned and doffed in under one minute. It also requires minimal operator training because it permits natural, fluid and intuitive movement.

The Guardian XO is relevant to a multitude of large global markets, such as manufacturing of all types, construction, health care, logistics, oil & gas, public safety and defense industries.

Offered via a fee-based Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, the Guardian XO delivers multiples of an individual employee’s productivity for the cost of a single employee, while reducing costly occupational injuries, creating a clear and compelling return-on-investment for Sarcos’ customers.

Key Product Attributes

Power Consumption
The Guardian XO exoskeleton is designed to operate for up to eight hours on one charge and is extremely power efficient, requiring ~400 watts of power while walking at human speed, which represents a 90+ percent reduction in power typically required for humanoid robots. Additionally, the Guardian XO robot is designed to allow its battery modules to be “hot swapped” in the field within seconds without loss of power to the unit.
Reducing Load Strain

The Guardian XO robot does not add weight or inertia (metabolic drag) like unpowered exoskeleton technology, rather it supplies the energy to handle itself (energetically autonomous). The robot offloads 100 percent of the weight the worker is bearing through the suit’s structure to the ground, reducing the operator’s metabolic output and the chance of strain or injury.

Safety

The Guardian XO robot enables workers to safely and easily lift up to 200 pounds repeatedly without exertion, strain or injury, and prevents both daily fatigue and long-term physical degradation from humans performing physically taxing jobs. The Guardian XO is equipped with scaled dexterous end effectors and force feedback features so that an operator can easily perform highly precise tasks with heavy tools or components. The Guardian XO robot contains built-in software controls that manage what should and shouldn’t be done in the suit, preventing workers from performing tasks that would not be good for a person to do even with the additional weight bearing capabilities of the suit.

Ease of Use

Sarcos’ Guardian XO robot allows humans wearing the suit to move in a natural, fluid, intuitive manner, work in a variety of terrains and access tight or confined spaces that big machinery cannot operate in. Utilizing Sarcos’ proprietary advanced control system, called “Get-Out-of-the-Way” control, the Guardian XO robot is designed to eliminate any perception of latency between the movement of the human operator and the exoskeleton. The control system relies on a suite of sensors integrated into the exoskeleton, foregoing the need to affix sensors directly onto the human body. This control system enables the Guardian XO robot to respond to the operator’s movements in milliseconds, allowing the operator to intuitively control the robot in a way that leverages his or her instincts and reflexes and minimizes the need for human training.