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Having an exoskeleton. Save you from a bad back. I've come to find out if my bank can be saved. So we're down here in Saint Albans at Stanley who make exoskeletons and AI generated safety workwear and I'm going to be trying on some of their kit. I just hope they've got some which fit my waistline. So it's battery powered, so it originated as a medical device and what it originated for is basically expanding the spine. So whenever we're carrying weight, so it's compressing each one of our spinal discs, what this suit does, it stretches our backpack out, but where our disks are compressing, this pushes our spine back up, puts us into a more upright position. So what happens is right, this is where health and basically he'll, he'll carry out the task and all of the angles of his limbs are being recorded to be sent up to the cloud. So. Once we have at least 2 minutes of the task being carried out, we then introduce some questions so the device knows what load he was carrying at the time. OK, so all this is great, but actually is it going to really be able to record the most common job electricians will do? Not a chance. Once all of my ankles have been recorded, it was time for Chris to get me dressed in the exoskeleton and start doing some electrical work, like using a hammer drill on a long corrosive fitting. Next up is the module, which is a bit like a pedometer for your back. Let's see what Chris had to say. We're going to take one of the module devices which is going to analyse every bend, twist, movement, activity, step to speed, aggression of all of those movements that this belt on. Okay to clip it on. It's going to measure what you're doing. That your shift OK through the hoop and there we go. Just a closer look at this. So all of those out QR code. So I am test employee. Excellent. There we go. And I'm sorry, that's what you've been doing this week so far. So Chris got me clicked in and started suggesting that I wasn't a very good Bender. You do a bend that's over 60�� going to alert you that the movement you're doing is potentially quite dangerous. I showed them how well I could really bend. But can I tell if you have not bent properly? And that should hopefully be vibrating. Goodness me. So that's telling me I've just bent wrong. That's telling you what you've just done. Potentially dangerous. OK, so this is is hit. So how does it know? Because it will know I'm going down. That's fine. But how does it know I'm doing that? It's going again. You'll notice the device is here. Yeah. So as you bend, the device bends with you. So inside there is accelerometers and gyros meters measuring every movement you're doing on the speed of which and the aggression, the repetition of all of that being all of that data up into into the algorithms where the AI is crunching that data. And it's giving you an understanding of what your performance like as an individual from an economic point of view. Let's be honest, none of us want a knackered. And this could be the solution for that. I mean, it's not Big Brother. They're not all out there watching you. It's purely for your safety. Certainly with that AI technology, I've been able to have a look at some of the data and it can get it to granular detail. And it's not finding out how you're performing. It's finding out all of those things that could be impacting your health and what could be wrong with that. So let's understand why this stuff is important. So the HSE published regard charts with regard to injury in the workplace. So if you look at the 2023 figures released and. Half a million people suffered from muscular skeletal injuries in the workplace. So that's why looking at ergonomic movement is extremely important. So once this data is collected, it goes up to our AI platform. So AI is constantly getting a more accurate with that person's profile and then that will drive the data towards a risk factor. So we call it an MET score, which is a well known gore that came out of form because the AI model is getting larger and larger the more data it's. Collecting, which is making the outcomes more accurate. You know, there is a reluctance for AI. It's gonna take all of our jobs. Is that the credit case, Graham? No lot of scaremongering. We will start to adjust to the way AI enhances our lives. Skill sets will be redeployed. And you know, the technology is going to support the way we do things, whether it's manufacturing, whether it's health and safety, all of these things. It should enhance our lives. Where I used to work with our competition, like how many steps you could do in the day and I used to. You know full well it by, you know, doing that with my watch all the time. I mean, am I going to get away with if I was doing that kind of all the time? No AI is cleverer than that. So I can't fool the bell no doing this. No. You can try, but you'll get sussed out. Here's a question I've been wondering. Who is Stanley? Are you Stanley? You sure? Yeah. Ohh. OK right now. Yeah, you, Stanley, I am. You are. Yeah, tried on your actuated thing. OK, then go around me, go one in the bigger size. We do. Okay. Extended workflow plates. Yeah. I don't wanna say huge thank you to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology for inviting us down here. And I want to say thank you to all of you guys from Stanley who have shown us some of the most innovative tech to help you in the workplace where safety really does matter. And be sure to check out Stanley's website. I'll leave links in the comments below, but from all of us. Bye, bye for now. Just wait to see how long they go. That.