ExoChair

ExoChair is the passive industrial exoskeleton intended for unloading of muscles of a back and legs at performance of work in a standing position and increasing the individual performance of work.

According to representatives of developer company "Useful robots", economic effect is reached due to decrease in fatigue and influence of harmful factors at the workers performing work in static poses (for example, on assembly production), reducing dead times and a staff turnover. The adaptive system of management does not constrain movement. The data collection system is implemented using AI technology.

2018: Announcement of an exoskeleton

Specialists of Poleznye roboty LLC and Karfidov Lab design office (center of collective use Skolkovo) announced on April 26, 2018 that they developed the Russia's first industrial exoskeleton for a lower body under the name ExoChair.

According to developers, the exoskeleton is useful to people of a set of the most different professions: it can be cameramen, photographers, surgeons, nurses, social workers, hunters fishers, car mechanics, workers of pipeline and assembly productions and so on. In general the device reduces risks of the occupational diseases connected with violations of the musculoskeletal device (MD) at the people working in static poses (in a standing or sitting position), for example, during assembly transactions on production.

Data on work of an exoskeleton and status of the user gather and analyzed using artificial intelligence technologies. At the same time development meets one more important requirements - it is the maximum preserving of natural amount of movements of the person. For example, the operator can squat and at the same time is free touch to a floor. Scientists explain that the major aspect at the solution of similar tasks is search of optimal kinematics of an exoskeleton and optimization of weight of all nodes when preserving rigidity.

According to the statement of developers, ExoChair is cheaper than the western competitors: its average cost of 150 thousand rubles, at that time the German and American analogs cost respectively 3750 euro and 6000 dollars (or 282 and 370 thousand rubles at the rate of on 4/25/2018). In the Russian market there are no other similar devices yet.^[1]

2017: Field tests

In November-December, 2017 development passed "field tests" in the Center of accounting of cash money turnover of PJSC Sberbank in a workplace of recalculation of coins of the Bank of Russia. Also the exoskeleton was tested at assembly and installation of the chassis of gas engine buses.

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