Agadexo Shoulder

This exoskeleton is based on a hybrid motion technology that combines passive elements with electric motors. This design aims to unite the benefits of the two worlds, resulting in a lightweight, comfortable, and low-energy consumption device that dynamically adapts to the user’s movements and payloads to compensate for shoulder muscular stress.

The Agadexo Shoulde is a semi-active exoskeleton based on A.I.technology.

Description

Agadexo Shoulder is a semi-active upper-limb exoskeleton designed to reduce the muscular effort in the shoulders during repetitive manual material handling tasks, typical in manufacturing, automotive, the food industry, logistics, and retail.

Description:

The Agadexo Shoulder is a semi-active exoskeleton based on integrated artificial intelligence, designed to automatically recognize and assist manual material handling tasks at work, relieving the burden on the shoulders, arms, and back and reducing the risks of muscular disorders.

It is tailored for lifting, carrying, and lowering payload (up to 25kg), with movements within the upper body range, from hip to head level, commonly encountered in production lines from manufacturing and food industries and logistic plants for end-of-line palletizing activities.

It is designed to:

  • Reduce the musculoskeletal stresses on the shoulder by up to 40%.
  • Utilize Ssensorized bracelets combined with A.I. algorithms to enable payload grasping recognition, activating Agadexo when needed.
  • Take advantage of semi-active actuators to minimize power consumption.
  • It aims to reduce the footprint of the wearable device using a carbon fiber mechanical structure while maintaining maximum freedom of movement, lightness, and resistance.

Technical specifications:

  • Actuation: coil springs coupled to linear electric drive
  • Overall device weight (battery included): 6 kg (13.2 lbs)
  • Anti-gravity support: up to 8 kg per arm (16 kg max tot.)
  • Removable battery autonomy: 8 hr
  • Donning & doffing within 1 minute
  • Sizes: M/L and S/M with adjustable settings (body heights range from 160-200cm)
  • Removable and washable soft interfaces
  • Easy and intuitive human-machine interface (HMI) device control
  • Includes a box to store and charge the device

One product pack of Agadexo Shoulder includes:

  • 1 exoskeleton,
  • 4 wireless sensorized bracelets,
  • 2 Li-ion removable batteries,
  • 2 sets of removable and washable soft interfaces, and
  • 1 box system for storage and charging all the devices.

Agadexo Shoulder cannot be used in hazardous environments, with dust or water, and it is not suitable for driving forklifts or vans and does not allow sitting on a chair.

An independent study conducted by UniVerona has demonstrated experimentally that Agadexo Shoulder can provide a maximum reduction of muscular stress at the shoulder and back level of 40 % within specific tasks of upper-body manual material handling, and payloads up to 13 kg.

Agadexo is CE marked and compliant with the Machine Directive 2006/42/CE (EN ISO 13482:2014 included) and directive 2014/30/UE for electromagnetic compatibility.


AGADE Srl, Via Polidoro da Caravaggio 37, Milan 20156 – Italy, Website, LinkedIn

Agade (the name stands for Anti-Gravity Active Device for Exoskeletons) is an Italian start-up, spin-off of Politecnico di Milano, born from a research project of Politecnico di Milano University on the development of active exoskeletons to assist people affected by muscular dystrophy in daily life activities. It takes its name from the patented semi-active technology at the core of their exoskeletons. It’s been incorporated in 2020 and it started working to develop occupational exoskeletons in collaboration with CLO Servizi Logistici (from Lega Coop) and Brembo through the partnership with Kilometro Rosso. Agade is also one of the startup selected by the EIC accelerator program, won in 2021.

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