Professor Shigeki Toyama and his team developed the power-enhancing suit at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.The metal-and-plastic exoskeleton has eight electric motors that amplify the strength of the wearer's arms and legs. It responds to commands through a voice-recognition system. It also has sensors that can detect movements.
"If the farmer bends over to grasp a radish, his back will be firmly supported," said Gohei Yamamoto, one of the students working on the team, as he recently demonstrated the suit on his university campus. "A brief vocal instruction will instantly straighten the rods along his legs, giving him the power he needs to pull the vegetable without effort."
Fifteen years in the making, the robo-suit will soon hit the market in Japan to help ageing farmers harvest their fruit and vegetables while avoiding backaches and nasty cramps, its developers say. However, Toyama doubts that the suit would sell in Europe and America.
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