EXOSUITS AND AI

Most of the industrial exosuits currently in use are mechanical: they don’t rely on computer or electronic components to function. They support workers’ bodies, but they don’t collect data. In the future, though, next generation exosuits could start collecting data about the people wearing them. Data could be analysed by AI to inform decisions about work targets and performance, or even to train robots. If or when exosuits begin to collect biometric data, we’ll be facing a whole new set of ethical issues:

Surveillance:

Data ownership:

Training the robots: