- cross-posted to:
- firefighting@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- firefighting@lemmy.world
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 …
This is awesome. Just think of how much this will improve the quality of life if we can reduce the strain of repetitive stress injuries so people can spend more time enjoying their off time rather than just simply recovering from the wear and tear of their day job.
And the owners will use it as an excuse to not hire more workers or increase wages for the more productive current workers
Definitely! There are so many jobs with heavy lifts where something like this could help. Spanning all the way from construction to health care.
Hahaha ah yeah imagine seeing the fruits of technological productivity increases instead of it being used to dump more workload on us.
Just think about the amount of weapons a soldier could carry with them!
Help workers?!? Get those to a front line!
Murica! Fuck yeah!