Awesome! Movers in China wear exoskeleton suits for heavy lifting, boosting efficiency, reducing injury as technology expands across nation
- More moving companies give intelligent wearable exoskeleton robots to movers to help meet rising demand during peak summer moving season
- Two-thirds of orders for buildings with no lifts and before the robots, work was strenuous and slow
A number of Chinese movers which are using wearable exoskeleton robots to boost efficiency and prevent muscle strain have trended on mainland social media after videos of the devices were posted.
CCTV2 reported this month that more mainland moving companies have started to provide intelligent wearable exoskeleton robots for their workers to meet the demand for services in the peak summer season, with companies in Beijing, Shanghai and other cities using the technology.
Movers Hong Yanming and Nian Jihong appeared in a video wearing the exoskeleton suits while carrying two boxes each and climbing stairs.
“It is able to relieve the pressure on my shoulders,” Nian told CCTV2.
Hong said that two-thirds of their orders came from tenants living in buildings without lifts and that before the exoskeleton robots, the work was strenuous, especially while climbing stairs.
The robots record and analyse data from the wearers and make intelligent response decisions that generate force to help the wearer move about with less effort.
Lin Xichuan, the chief technology officer for an AI company that was not named in the report, said that the robot suits could transfer and lighten weights borne by the wearer.
“It can prevent movers from suffering strain of lower back muscles or other aches,” he said.