HULC is a lower-body, electro-hydraulically-powered exoskeleton designed to lift and carry heavy loads. It transfers weight through the machine’s frame to the ground, significantly reducing operator ...

Called the Pneumatically Actuated Soft Elbow Exoskeleton (PASE), the device uses a silicone “pneumatic actuator,” or soft air ...

Snap-on says its Blue-Point Wheel Lift Assist (YA1714) can do most of the manual lifting of tire and wheel assemblies from the vehicle to the tire changer, from the tire changer to the wheel balancer, ...

How did this lifting range come into existence? Some might say experience and logic got us here. Actually, this guideline was developed through historical research done by the National Institute for ...

Caregivers of wheelchair-bound people face a lot of challenges, and one of them is simply getting the person out of the wheelchair at the end of the day and into bed. Repeated heavy lifting in this ...

For workers whose jobs involve hours of lifting and repetitive motion, even small innovations can make a big difference in ...

Detroit — Vietnam veteran George Holewski will be able to move his feet in and out of his car more easily, thanks to a team of college students who spent their senior year creating the Walk & Lift ...

When lifting an object to above shoulder height, the core and stabilizer muscles become less efficient, so we change our body mechanics and the risk of shoulder injury increases dramatically. How did ...