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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Army is looking into the Human Universal Load Carrier (HULC) as part of the solution to reduce the weight of the loads troops have to carry in theater. Wearable device is capable of carrying ...