Well hung ‘robot’
Although the Japanese research team at researchers at the Nagayo University calls it a “robot” for “carpentry,” this is actually a single-purpose exoskeleton for hanging drywall—aka a Well Hung Robot.
In their paper, Development of a Wearable Robot for Assisting Carpentry Workers (PDF).
Development of a Wearable Robot for
Assisting Carpentry Workers
Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, JAPAN (PDF)
Abstract: The work of fitting ceiling boards is one of the hardest in carpentry, as it requires large muscular power. Hence there is a need to develop assisting apparatus for such work. In order to use this apparatus anywhere a wearable robot is the most suitable. As the robot must be autonomous and lightweight, a design requiring low power is proposed. A semi-active control method has been developed using springs, which requires low energy but satisfies the requirements of compliance and assistive force. In this paper several aspects of design, control and experiments of the developed prototype is explained. The experimental results prove that the robot reduces the muscular fatigue of carpentry worker by providing suitable assistive force.
Hey. Just to have some fun with robot translations, let’s count the machine-translation mistakes in that abstract, Robot for Assisting Carpentry Workers (PDF).
“Robot”
—> Single-purpose exoskeleton
“Carpentry Workers”
—> drywallers
“The work of fitting ceiling boards”
—> Hanging drywall for ceilings
“it requires large muscular power.”
—> requiring extensive labor and muscular strength ...etc…
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