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A new exoskeleton to support workers in railways maintenance and renewal operations (techxplore.com)

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A new exoskeleton to support workers in railways maintenance and renewal operations::A back support exoskeleton has been developed at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology—IIT) to improve railway workers' safety and conditions for heavy manual material handling during maintenance ...

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[-] rycee@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Definitely! There are so many jobs with heavy lifts where something like this could help. Spanning all the way from construction to health care.

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