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 'Wearable Agrirobot' Power Suit Helps Farm Harvest & Pruning Published: Apr 25, 09 Comments: 1 Views: 33,036 The Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology has developed an agriculture robot suit tailored to the 40% of Japan’s farm workers who are over the age of 65. Shigeki Toyama, a professor in robotics who developed the harvesting and pruning suit, sought to make it industry and task-specific in order to generate cost savings in producing the suit. “Anyone can use it without a drop in work efficiency,” Toyama said. “I want to increase the types of work in which it can help.”  Tokyo Agriculture and Technology University student Gohei Yamamoto wears a power-assist suit while pulling a white radish from the ground for a demonstration of the prototype robot suit for elderly agriculture workers, in Tokyo on January 9.
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