---
title: "New Cyborg Roboglove Will Give You Superhuman Strength"
description: "Automobile giant GM just created the RoboGlove to assist factory workers in their heavy lifting."
date: "2016-07-14"
modified: "2016-07-15"
authors:
  - name: "Jelor Gallego"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jelor-gallego"
url: "https://futurism.com/general-motors-roboglove-promises-more-strength-for-factory-workers"
categories:
  - "Robots and Machines"
tags:
  - "industrial robots"
  - "roboglove"
  - "robonaut 2"
---

# New Cyborg Roboglove Will Give You Superhuman Strength

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/A-wired.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: \<a href="https://www.wired.com/" target="\_blank"\>wired\</a\>\</em\>*

Now it seems like you won't need a whole exosuit to lift heavy objects. You'll just need a glove.

General Motors had revealed that it is partnering with Swedish med-tech company Bioservo to create the RoboGlove, a [power-assisted gauntlet](<https://www.wired.com/2016/07/gm-nasa-roboglove-robonaut/>) for factory workers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hKDr9hhUt0

The basis for RoboGlove has actually come from a previous GM partnership: [Robonaut, the ISS humanoid robot](<https://futurism.com/nasa-humanoid-robot-robonaut-2-first-robot-in-outer-space>) made through a NASA-GM collaboration. Now, Robonaut's strength and grip has allowed the development of this glove.

The RoboGlove uses leading-edge sensors, actuators and tendons that are comparable to the nerves, muscles, and tendons in a human hand. This technology allows Roboglove to operate tools designed for humans, and achieve unprecedented dexterity.

“Combining the best of three worlds – space technology from NASA, engineering from GM and medtech from Bioservo – in a new industrial glove could lead to industrial scale use of the technology,” said Tomas Ward, CEO of Bioservo Technologies [in a press release](<http://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/news.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2016/jul/0706-gm-nasa.html>).