I can see this making its way into Firefighting - A new exoskeleton to support workers in railways maintenance and renewal operations

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-07-exoskeleton-workers-railways-maintenance-renewal.html

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2038783

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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Parzival1780@lemm.ee · 0 pts · 3y

I think that could be really cool, but wouldn't that get in the way of an SCBA when doing fire attack and stuff?