Comau has launched the Mate-XT GO, the brand new wearable exoskeleton designed to help staff’ arms and shoulders throughout repetitive or overhead duties.
Weighing lower than 3 kg and straightforward to make use of, it may be placed on in 30 seconds and brought off in simply 10 seconds, permitting for straightforward integration into day by day actions with out interrupting workflows.
Licensed as Class II Private Protecting Gear, which permits use in regulated work environments, Mate-XT GO reduces muscle and perceived effort by as much as 50 %, bettering consolation, endurance, and posture all through the workday with out proscribing pure actions.
Designed for sectors comparable to business, logistics, development, agriculture, and expert trades, it makes work safer and extra environment friendly, by benefiting not solely massive enterprises, but in addition small and medium-sized companies (SMBs) and artisans and serving to to enhance the standard of lifetime of staff.
Constructing on the success of the Made-in-Italy Mate vary, the brand new Mate-XT GO robotic exoskeleton delivers larger help in a lighter answer whereas preserving pure motion and luxury all through the workday.
The lowered general weight and elevated consolation of Mate-XT GO throughout extended use helps seamless integration into regular operations with out disrupting established workflows.
Mate-XT GO can also be extra economically accessible for all, as its totally passive design requires minimal upkeep and decrease lifecycle prices. All of which make Mate-XT GO effectively fitted to large-scale deployment inside operations of any dimension.
Developed in shut collaboration with IUVO, a former spin-off firm of the celebrated college Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna whose majority share is now held by Comau, Mate-XT GO combines Comau’s industrial automation experience with deep know-how in wearable expertise and human biomechanics.
Marco Manavello, chief industrials operations officer, says: “This achievement marks an essential step ahead in our imaginative and prescient of human-centric automation.
“Constructing on the real-world expertise of greater than 3,000 firms already utilizing Mate exoskeletons at worldwide stage, and by listening carefully to the wants of each staff and employers, we have now additional advanced the expertise to ship measurable, on a regular basis advantages.
“Mate-XT GO combines a lighter design with skilled certification and confirmed efficiency. The result’s a wearable answer that may cut back perceived fatigue by as much as 50 %, help staff throughout bodily demanding duties, and assist firms systematically enhance ergonomics at scale.
“The answer can also be extra economically accessible and simpler to undertake and keep by SMBs. This in flip opens new alternatives for adoption throughout a a lot wider vary of sectors, together with manufacturing, development, logistics and agriculture, along with crafts and specialised trades.”
From a efficiency standpoint, Mate-XT GO gives 8 ranges of help for each arms, with eight adjustable ranges that observe the physiological motion of the shoulder. The result’s measurable ergonomic influence, with lowered efforts and improved posture
Key advantages, in response to Comau
- Calculable outcomes primarily based on measurable ergonomic enchancment
- Reduces shoulder muscle exercise and the perceived effort felt by staff
- Facilitates elevated precision, high quality and efficiency with staff reporting useful upgrades of job high quality
- Helps enhance high quality of life at work
