WHAT do you get when you cross the robotic exoskeleton from the movie Aliens
with a bunch of concertinas? A bionic nurse, of course. It’s designed to help
nurses lift patients effortlessly—and without damaging their backs.
“Back injuries are a huge problem for us,” says a spokeswoman for the Royal
College of Nursing in London. Every year, 3600 nurses from Britain’s National
Health Service have to take time off work because of back problems.
To address this global problem, Keijiro Yamamoto and his team at the Kanagawa
Institute of Technology in Japan have designed and built a prototype “power…
