HULC is a lower-body, electro-hydraulically-powered exoskeleton designed to lift and carry heavy loads. It transfers weight through the machine’s frame to the ground, significantly reducing operator ...

Using more than $68,000 in state grant funds, the Albany Fire Department provided inflatable lifting chairs to local care ...

Automation and robotics have made material handling effortless (aside from the headaches created by software glitches). However, there are major limitations and some tasks cannot be done with robots ...

Members of Bioactivity work on the beginning stages of the Emergency Lift Assist device. This past March, Andy Cohen was caught in one of the worst snowstorms of the year. The Crozet native, who ...

In 1986, Sigourney Weaver appeared in the sci-fi film "Aliens" as Ellen Ripley – the film's heroine who saves the day by donning an exosuit and fighting off a terrorizing alien queen. What most ...