
With gardening becoming increasingly popular thanks to the credit crunch any help with the digging and weeding is to be welcomed.
To that effect Japanese scientists have come up with a robot suit designed to help with tilling the soil.
The only problem is it might give whoever's trying to put it on a bad back never mind what the neighbours will say Weighing in at 55lb (about the same as 25 bags of sugar) the inventors at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology insist the 'suit' carries its own weight and places a minimum load on the operator.






