GAMbIT Magazine Issue #27 June 2017 | Page 17

LOWES AND VIRGINIA TECH DEVELOPING EXOSKELETON The future is here and it's brought to you by Lowes? Anyone who’s been to a do-it- backbreaking. The exoskeleton uses yourself store knows that they’re carbon fiber leaf springs to store stocked to the brim with big, heavy energy as the wearer bends, then objects. And the biggest and releases that energy as they heaviest usually require the aid of a straighten out. They’ve also been sales associate or two to move. And designed for comfort; an important that’s where the exoskeleton comes thing, considering they’re meant to in. Lowes has partnered with Virginia be worn for an entire work shift. Tech to develop a passive Someday that employee might be a exoskeleton to make their employees bit less grumpy about having to help jobs a little easier… and a lot less me with that 5 gallon paint bucket.