Using more than $68,000 in state grant funds, the Albany Fire Department provided inflatable lifting chairs to local care ...

HULC is a lower-body, electro-hydraulically-powered exoskeleton designed to lift and carry heavy loads. It transfers weight through the machine’s frame to the ground, significantly reducing operator ...

ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--3M Personal Safety Division announces that StrongArm® Technologies ErgoSkeleton™ personal performance equipment will now be available for purchase through 3M’s ...

Caregivers of wheelchair-bound people face a lot of challenges, and one of them is simply getting the person out of the wheelchair at the end of the day and into bed. Repeated heavy lifting in this ...

In 1986, Sigourney Weaver appeared in the sci-fi film "Aliens" as Ellen Ripley – the film's heroine who saves the day by donning an exosuit and fighting off a terrorizing alien queen. What most ...

BEDFORD — Lawrence County emergency officials are sounding the alarm over a growing trend that is stretching the county’s ...

Members of Bioactivity work on the beginning stages of the Emergency Lift Assist device. This past March, Andy Cohen was caught in one of the worst snowstorms of the year. The Crozet native, who ...

When Diane Leising came home from a physical rehabilitation center last spring, her caretaker had a secret weapon – the University at Buffalo Center for Assistive Technology, a nonprofit agency packed ...