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A new exoskeleton to support workers in railways maintenance and renewal operations (techxplore.com)
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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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[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The only problem is that the rail companies all over the world treat their workers like a consumable item. If they had thousands of dollars spare per each rail worker that money would go immediately to the pockets of the executives. As it mostly does today.