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Frames designed for individual tasks can be attached to the backpack, with some arcing over a person's head like a small crane. As well as boosting raw lifting ability, the suit helps workers manipulate heavy components precisely: it takes most of the weight, so the user is effectively handling light objects.
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and  tweeted that humanity should be careful about developing machines that can think for themselves.
  Chu says worker feedback from the trial has been mostly positive. Testers were pleased that the exoskeleton let them lift heavy objects repeatedly without strain, but everyone also wanted it to move faster and be able  to cope with heavier loads. Chu is working on it. "Our current research target of the lifting capacity is about 100 kilograms," he says.
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  Worth reading Superintelligence by Bostrom, , We need to be careful with A.I. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.  
The world's top three shipbuilding firms are South Korean 鈥?Daewoo, Hyundai Heavy Industries and Samsung Heavy Industries 鈥?and their shipyards are already renowned for their level of automation. In a study of the firms' facilities in 2012, US Navy personnel found that five out of the six yards they visited used robots in some capacity. At one shipyard, robots did 68 per cent of all welding as well as carrying out jobs from cutting and grinding steel to polishing freshly assembled hulls, with minimal human oversight.
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Yikes. The book Musk refers to is聽Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies聽by Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom. In it Bostrom argues that machine intelligence could eventually surpass human intelligence and become the dominant force on Earth.
"At the time, most of the yards we toured were significantly more advanced in robotic welding than the US yards performing naval ship construction, and had been for a long time," Gene Mitchell, the retired US Navy officer who led the research told New Scientist.
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All this automation goes into  building truly . Daewoo has a $1.9 billion contract from shipping giant Maersk to build 10 55,000-tonne container ships. Each 400 metres in length, with space for 18,000 containers, they will be .
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This isn t the first time Musk has expressed concern over A.I., something that goes against the utopian view of the technology professed by other Silicon Valley notables.
As the industry grows, so too will the need for automation, including robotic suits of the kind Daewoo is experimenting with. The prototypes still have several important kinks to be worked out, though. In tests, workers had a hard time negotiating sloping or slippery surfaces. And the prototypes cannot yet cope with twisting motions, so workers making turns while carrying heavy objects could tire out easily.
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Still, Chu is committed. "We've been developing and applying robots and automation in shipbuilding for more than a decade," he says. And if he has his way, humans will soon be effortlessly wielding ship  parts that weigh more than they do.
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The fact that a man who spends his days selling electric  and pushing for widely-available space travel doesn t like robots shouldn t be too surprising. These different technologies aren t inevitably linked.
This article appeared in print under the headline "Lifting big"
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Humans have to make the conscious decision to develop (or not develop) different technologies. Musk has chosen to opt out of one, and he s probably right to do so.

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