Skip and Arc’teryx’s exoskeleton pants are designed to hiking more accessible

Exoskeletons are still primarily imagined as a way to restore paraplegics’ mobility and make physically demanding jobs less dangerous, but if you’re willing to spend around $5,000, you can get a taste of one right now. MO/GO, a pair of exoskeleton-aided pants from Arc’teryx and Skip, a former part of Google’s X, aren’t focused on the usual healthcare or enterprise uses for exoskeletons and instead something much simpler — making walking and hiking more accessible.