This exoskeleton helps your shoulders and lower back when you lift things overhead, using motors for the shoulders and springs for the back, and it moves naturally with your body.

From: Design and Preliminary Evaluation of a Hybrid Active-Passive Upper-Body Exoskeleton for Overhead Load Assistance

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This exoskeleton helps your shoulders and lower back when you lift things overhead, using motors for the shoulders and springs for the back, and it moves naturally with your body.

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A single upper-body exoskeleton system can feasibly provide coordinated active-passive assistance at the shoulder and lumbar regions through integration of an active double-parallelogram cable-driven shoulder unit and a passive spring-loaded four-bar linkage for lumbar support, while maintaining kinematic compatibility with human movement during overhead lifting tasks.

What the research says

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Study: Design and Preliminary Evaluation of a Hybrid Active-Passive Upper-Body Exoskeleton for Overhead Load Assistance

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