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Wearable mobile machines integrate people and machines to assist the movement-impaired, and amplify the capabilities of industrial and defense workers while protecting them from injury.

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            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 62, Issue 3
            March 2019
            109 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/3314328
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