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golfblues

03/07/18 4:39 PM

#5053 RE: skepticone #5052

Nice find but now you know why BMW didn't go with EKSO. They chose another company
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Bobby Marinov

03/07/18 6:48 PM

#5054 RE: skepticone #5052

Let me say that the EHS article is mostly true. A good deal of the information that is referenced in it was confidential and I had been asked in the past not to share it. I don't know if EHS Today just decided to jump the gun or received the necessary permissions to publish all of this, but good for them either way.

What Levitate did was pure genius: they took their device to an already existing digitized test, a sort of a welding competition where all of the performance has already been digitized and quantified. They then added the Airframe in the mix and simply compared the same person's performance over an entire day with rest in between. Why is this special? Because the original test system was designed without the exoskeleton ever been considered! All other test systems are designed with an exoskeleton in mind, but not this one, so there was no bias. The results were stunning and reproducible from person to person.

" CE marking as PPE " this part I know little about. If Levitate has a PPE approval in Europe, it will be a big step forward for it, Ekso, suitX and every other industrial exoskeleton manufacturer. However, I think EHS got something wrong here (again, confidential territory, which I think should be respected).