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 …

  • DaveNa@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Exactly what I was thinking. No thanks, I’ll pass. Edit: the most voted post is the happy oblivious one. Ignorance is bliss.

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      1 year ago

      Fuck me for trying to be optimistic, right?

      Of course business will try to exploit this to try and squeeze a little more labour from their workers, but what good is it in constantly being negative about developments like this?

      I imagine that you would have complained about Henry Ford’s crazy “40 hour work week” as a cynical ploy to drive up auto sales.