The exoskeleton StreamEXO (VIDEO)
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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 and renewal operations. The prototype, named STREAMEXO, was validated in approximately 100 hours of use by 15 people during a 6-month test campaign hosted in Italy highlighting a 50% reduction in the ergonomic risk of physical overload and a 30% of muscle fatigue. The exoskeleton StreamEXO has been developed within the European project STREAM (https://streams2r.eu/) coordinated by Christian Di Natali, researcher of the IIT and funded by the European Union within Horizon 2020 and Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking
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IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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