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

submitted 2 years ago by L4s to c/technology

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Exactly what I was thinking. No thanks, I'll pass. Edit: the most voted post is the happy oblivious one. Ignorance is bliss.

[–] justhach 3 points 2 years ago

Fuck me for trying to be optimistic, right?

Of course business will try to exploit this to try and squeeze a little more labour from their workers, but what good is it in constantly being negative about developments like this?

I imagine that you would have complained about Henry Ford's crazy "40 hour work week" as a cynical ploy to drive up auto sales.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Haha wow you weren't kidding about that edit