The prototype of a wearable half-robotic device for carpentry workers has been designed by scientists and engineers at Nagayo University in Japan. While doing research on how to make carpentry tasks easier for humans the research tem realized that while fitting ceiling boards in place, the carpenter used a great amount of strength to fit the boards into place. Their half-robot theme and design is ideal for reducing muscle output force of the carpenter, thereby reducing his arm fatigue. According to the team, the act of holding a board overhead and fixing it with a screw is essentially against our physiognomy as it requires multiple over-the-head manual tasks. These combined factors create varying degrees of muscle fatigue in carpentry workers. Anyhow, the current prototype is far from perfection because they need to rework the load, and the speed of the robot.

Eventually the scientists hope that their study and work on the Wearable Half-Robotic Device for Carpentry Workers will reach perfection and will be utilized in the industry.

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