Industries
Wearable support anytime, anywhere
Exoskeletons provide versatile,
location-independent support across many applications and industries, offering a modern and practical solution to future-proof your workforce.
Across a wide range of industries, from agriculture and construction to healthcare and logistics, workers face physically demanding tasks, often leading to fatigue and musculoskeletal strain. Many of these tasks rely on human intelligence, skills, and situational awareness, making automation impractical. This is where exoskeletons provide a practical solution, offering reliable support anytime, anywhere.
Logistics
Exoskeletons in logistics can enhance worker safety and efficiency by reducing physical strain while supporting greater mobility and dynamic movement in fast-paced environments.
Logistics tasks such as loading and unloading goods, order picking, and airport baggage handling are physically intensive, often requiring workers to lift, carry, and stack items in fast-paced environments. These activities frequently result in back strain, shoulder fatigue, and injuries.
Processes like sorting, inventory management, and restocking demand constant movement, including bending, reaching, and prolonged leaning, which can lead to discomfort and fatigue. Applications in logistics often involve greater mobility and spatial challenges, emphasizing the need for solutions that enable unconstrained movement and require no setup time.
Manufacturing
Exoskeletons can help in manufacturing by reducing physical strain on workers, enhancing endurance, and minimizing the risk of injuries during repetitive or heavy tasks.
Manufacturing tasks like material handling, assembly, and tool handling, often involve repetitive motions, heavy lifting, prolonged standing, and awkward postures, leading to common pain points such as musculoskeletal strain, repetitive strain injuries, and fatigue.
Activities like welding, painting, and maintenance further amplify risks of back and shoulder discomfort due to static or awkward positions. Additionally, tasks like packaging, sorting, and cleaning can cause lower back pain, arm fatigue, and leg strain from continuous bending, reaching, or standing. Addressing these challenges is key to improving worker safety and productivity.
Construction
Thanks to their lightweight design and compact size, exoskeletons offer flexible support in tight spaces and unstructured terrains, providing an ergonomic solution where other options are challenging to implement.
Construction involves a wide range of physically demanding activities, such as carrying and handling heavy materials, leaning forward for extended periods during tile laying or floor preparation, plastering walls and ceilings, and performing overhead tasks like painting or cable installation. These tasks often lead to back strain, shoulder fatigue, and repetitive stress injuries due to awkward postures, heavy lifting, and prolonged exertion.
Workers also face challenges from kneeling, bending, working in unstructured terrains, or operating in confined spaces, increasing the risk of musculoskeletal issues. The dynamic and varied nature of construction sites demands versatile solutions, and for the many tasks in construction, our exoskeleton portfolio offers easy-to-use tools to reduce strain and support workers in their jobs.
Agriculture
Exoskeletons can reduce physical strain in agriculture by enhancing strength and endurance, helping workers perform repetitive or demanding tasks with less fatigue, while maintaining the precision and adaptability required.
Agricultural work involves diverse, physically demanding tasks such as planting, harvesting, pruning, and livestock care, along with specialized activities like sheep shearing and horseshoeing. These tasks often require repetitive motions, heavy lifting, and prolonged work in challenging positions, leading to strain and musculoskeletal injuries.
Due to unpredictable environments, varying crop and livestock needs, and tasks requiring fine motor skills, adaptability, and judgment, agriculture relies heavily on human labor. Exoskeletons can support these workers by reducing fatigue and exhaustion, allowing them to focus on their tasks and effectively manage unforeseen challenges in this dynamic environment.
Other Industries
Exoskeletons offer high flexibility and versatility, making them suitable for a wide range of applications. They provide crucial support in scenarios where traditional equipment like cranes, conveyor belts, hoists, or wheelbarrows cannot be used, ensuring workers can perform physically demanding tasks with reduced strain and greater efficiency.
Many other fields involve physically demanding tasks that strain workers. In healthcare and nursing, tasks like lifting patients or providing bed care cause back and shoulder strain from repetitive bending. Mining requires handling heavy equipment and working in confined spaces, leading to musculoskeletal injuries and fatigue. Emergency response teams face intense physical demands, such as setting up camps, moving sandbags, and transporting generators under time pressure. Similarly, military operations involve handling heavy loads and building infrastructure in challenging terrains.
In these fields and many others, exoskeletons can play a transformative role, reducing physical strain and enhancing the safety and efficiency of essential tasks.
Education & Research
Wearable exoskeletons are a fast-growing industry, driving increasing demand for knowledge and highly skilled specialists. Now is the time to accelerate your research and train the next generation of exoskeleton experts.
The field of exoskeletons and wearable robotics inherently requires hardware that can be physically worn and experienced to advance education and research effectively. In education, such hardware should offer a hands-on, do-it-yourself aspect, providing access to its technical inner workings to facilitate practical learning and in-depth understanding. For researchers, the hardware should be readily available and reliable to accelerate research, and the hardware should allow customization to meet specific experimental needs.
Our EduExo product line supports educators, students, hobbyists, and researchers by providing exoskeleton knowledge and hardware tailored for learning, teaching, and research purposes. Additionally, our industrial exoskeletons are utilized in research exploring topics such as human-exoskeleton interaction and biomechanics. In educational settings, these exoskeletons are used to demonstrate the principles and applications of wearable exoskeletons to students in universities, technical schools, vocational training programs, and beyond.
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