ERGOFLEX industrial manipulators are self-contained, manually controlled hydraulic lifting arms used for quick, convenient and accurate material handling of moderate loads. They are much faster, safer, more versatile and accurate than a jib crane and a mere fraction of the cost of an industrial robot. ERGOFLEX industrial manipulators can perform many positioning and assembling tasks such as loading work pieces into machine tools, removing cores from boxes, manipulating large sheets of steel or glass and an various other operations. ERGOFLEX industrial manipulators can be found in numerous companies throughout the world performing material handling operations that had previously been done manually with jib or overhead cranes.