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A researcher at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa, in Italy, demonstrates an exoskeleton designed to allow a single rescue worker to lift a wall that has fallen and trapped earthquake survivors. The prototype is one of several machines—including a brain-controlled bionic hand and a garbage-recycling robot—that the group has produced.











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