First Exoskeleton to Help Production Workers
From: Medical Design Technology - 06/12/2015

EU Robo-Mate project presents first prototype of an exoskeleton to help
production workers.

Production workers often lift up to 10 metric tons of material a day.
According to the Work Foundation Alliance (Lancaster, UK), 44 million workers
in the EU suffer from work-related musculoskeletal disorders. Now researchers
in the EU’s Robo-Mate project have developed an exoskeleton that makes loads
up to ten times lighter to lift or carry.

Effortlessly, a factory worker lifts a seat out of an old car. In a few
nimble maneuvers, he grips the 15 kg seat, hoists it out of its anchoring,
and carries it to a station to join the other seats there. These fleet
movements are made possible by an exoskeleton, a kind of external supporting
frame that actively assists workers.

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http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2015/06/first-exoskeleton-help-production-workers

Links:
EU Robo-Mate project
http://www.robo-mate.eu/

Intelligent exoskeleton based on human-robot interaction for manipulation of heavy goods in Europe’s factories of the future
http://www.project-leanautomation.eu/index.php?id=robomate