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Manual labourers working in the Osaka shipyard have turned to a commercial exoskeleton in order to relieve stress on their back, increase efficiency, and stay healthier longer. The Power Assist Suit Atoun Model A, as it is snappily known, uses two high-torque AC, battery-powered motors and a sophisticated gearing system to allow users to far exceed their own strength, enabling humans to lift heavy objects all day without breaking a sweat.
One Chinese delivery service has found a mesmerising high-tech way to reduce on labour and maximise on efficiency, putting scores of robots to work to sort over 200,000 parcels and packages a day. Chinese delivery service Shentong Express Tracking employs dozens of yellow-topped robots on fixed tracks in their vast storerooms to pick up and drop off parcels to their proper locations based on data provided by the parcel barcode.
Employees of a Starbucks in Buffalo, New York have succeeded in forming the first union at a branch of the retail coffee giant in the United States. They listen as ballots are counted and celebrate after passing the threshold to unionize. IMAGES
Relatives of workers killed in Siberia's mine accident leave the company's facilities, as Russia begins a three-day period of mourning after 52 people died when smoke filled a Siberian coal mine and a rescue effort ended in tragedy. IMAGES
Belvidere, Oct 18 (EFE/EPA).- Parent company Stellantis has cut production and laid off 1,100 employees at the plant indefinitely because of a shift toward electric vehicles and a global microchip shortage. Employees laid off have been offered options of relocation, quitting or being fired as the US faces supply chain problems. (Camera: TANNEN MAURY).AERIAL FOOTAGE TAKEN WITH A DRONE SHOWS NEW VEHICLES AWAITING SHIPMENT AT THE FIAT CHRYSLER ASSEMBLY PLANT NEAR BELVIDERE, ILLINOIS, US. .