Exoskeleton
Much less effort
Exoskeleton for workers. Comau has presented the wearable exoskeleton Mate. It is designed to support movement for both repetitive and daily tasks.
Ergonomics has been a top priority for some time now. Mate also aims to improve the quality of work by providing continuous and advanced movement support in an efficient and ergonomic way. The Mate fit for workers exoskeleton uses an advanced passive spring structure to provide lightweight, breathable and effective postural support without the need for batteries, motors or other disruptive devices. Thanks to the partnership between Comau, Össur, a leading company in the field of non-invasive orthopaedics, and IUVO, a spin-off company of the Bio Robotics Institute (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna) specializing in wearable technologies, it is compact and ergonomically designed. Mate can reproduce every movement of the shoulder and fits the body like a "second skin".
The exoskeleton was developed in close collaboration with factory workers and is a direct response to their specific needs. With this exoskeleton, they can perform the same tasks as before, but with far less effort. For Comau, this development is a good opportunity to reach a global market that, according to the IFR, grew by more than 60 percent from 2015 to 2017 and is estimated to grow by a further 25 percent per year until 2020. Around a third of exoskeleton applications will probably be in the industrial sector.
Mate is an important part of Comau's Human Manufacturing Technology strategy, a concept in which people are the key players in the smart factory together with state-of-the-art digital tools, enabling technologies and "intelligent" industrial robotics as part of a networked production system. Comau
sees this as a vision and commitment to innovative, open and user-friendly technologies. It is the first in a series of wearable robotics concepts that Comau is developing and marketing in partnership with IUVO and Össur. One aspect of the cooperation is the shared desire to advance and further develop human-machine collaboration in different sectors. pb
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