Power and Protect Your Workforce
Industrial Robotic Assistance That Moves at the Speed of Your Frontline
Warehouse automation is not solely about replacing human motion — it is about empowering and sustaining the people who drive your operation. Across beverage wholesale, grocery, retail, 3PL, and manufacturing facilities, selectors and material handlers routinely lift and lower tens of thousands of pounds each shift.
Through Hy-Tek’s strategic integration partnership with Verve Motion, enterprise operators can deploy the SafeLift™ soft robotic exosuit directly onto the warehouse floor. Wearing like a lightweight 7.5 lb backpack, SafeLift combines adaptive robotic assistance with real-time motion analytics to alleviate worker strain, reduce injury downtime, and sustain picking productivity across full 10-to-12-hour shifts.
Quantifiable Human & Operational Returns
Validated across active enterprise deployments handling high-mix, high-repetition material flow.
Reduction in Lower Back & Hip Injuries
Directly mitigates workers' comp reserves, lost-time incidents, and modified-duty turnover.
Facility Productivity Acceleration
Combats late-shift muscle fatigue, preserving consistent pick rates from hour one to hour twelve.
Lower Back Strain Relief (Up to 240N)
Delivers parallel mechanical assistance during every lift and lower without restricting natural agility.
Typical Payback Realization
Rapid deployment through a subscription model delivering measurable payback within 6 to 12 months.
Robotic Support Designed Around the Associate
• Mechanics: Dual electric actuators provide up to 240 Newtons of motorized lifting and lowering assistance, offloading up to 40% of the payload weight from the lumbar spine and hip joints during every lift cycle.
• Intelligent Sensing: Integrated Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) distinguish picking movements from walking, reaching, or operating a forklift or pallet jack, activating assistance only when needed.
SafeLift is not merely a mechanical assist device—it is an enterprise IoT intelligence node on the warehouse floor. Integrated directly with the Verve Logic™ safety analytics portal, each suit continuously analyzes operator biomechanics, translating raw force and movement data into executive-level risk visibility.
VERVE LOGIC™ DATA ARCHITECTURE
Embedded 3D Sensors
- Lift Counts
- Bending Angles
Cellular IoT Gateway
- Zero Facility Wi-Fi
- Encrypted Backhaul
Verve Logic Cloud
- Ergonomic Risk
- Fleet Utilization
Executive Action Reports
- Targeted Coaching
- Facility Ergonomics
Biomechanical Risk & Posture Auditing
Sensors flag high-risk postures in real time, capturing excessive forward bending and twisting. Safety directors access objective data for proactive 1-on-1 coaching before injuries occur.
Fleet Utilization & Workload Balancing
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Zero-Friction Cellular IoT Connectivity
Telemetry transmits securely via an integrated cellular IoT gateway, operating 100% independent of facility Wi-Fi. Bypasses corporate IT bottlenecks with zero bandwidth competition.
Built for High-Stamina Environments: Where People and Automation Unite
Beverage Wholesale & Bottling
Handling 30-to-160 lb kegs, split-case craft builds, and mixed-case pallet top-offs across ambient and cold-room pick aisles.
Grocery & Cold Storage Distribution
High-velocity case selection across produce, frozen goods, and beverage cases where cold temperatures compound muscle fatigue.
Retail & E-Commerce Fulfillment
Replenishing fluid-loaded trailers, inbound carton de-stuffing, and heavy parcel induction.
Durable Goods & Manufacturing
Heavy sub-assembly manipulation, container handling, and line-side parts staging.
The Hy-Tek Full-Stack Ecosystem
Deploying wearable robotics through Hy-Tek gives you a single point of accountability from initial site audit to full-shift fleet orchestration.
Strategic Process Design
Our Strategic Services team audits your order profiles, pick loops, and slotting geometry before hardware lands on the floor.
Unified Software Orchestration
We align human-centric pick operations with automated buffering, AMRs, and conveyance through our IntraOne® WES orchestration platform.
Comprehensive Lifecycle Support
Guaranteed deployment onboarding, supervisor training, preventative hardware servicing, and battery lifecycle management backed by Hy-Tek’s nationwide technical services group.
Don't Guess on Workforce Ergonomics. Test SafeLift in Our Innovation Lab.
Theoretical ergonomics cannot substitute for real-world testing. Visit Hy-Tek’s 20,000 sq. ft. Innovation Lab in Erlanger/Hebron, KY (5 minutes from CVG airport) to try the SafeLift soft robotic exosuit for yourself. Walk our testing bays, lift real product payloads, and view live Verve Logic biomechanical analytics in action alongside our systems engineering team.
Wearable Robotics & SafeLift FAQs
Because SafeLift requires no fixed facility alterations, anchor bolts, or internal IT Wi-Fi integration, pilot deployments can be operational on your distribution floor within 2 to 4 weeks, with full enterprise rollouts executed inside 60 to 90 days.