Profile: Givens Lifting Systems Inc. designs and manufactures lifting equipment & automated material-handling machines. Our industrial manipulators are pneumatically-balanced manual lift assists. Manipulators are high-speed, high-performance manual material-handling solution. Industrial manipulators render the load virtually weightless from the point of view of the operator. Normally, there are no up or down push buttons, allowing the operator to concentrate on moving the load quickly without concentrating on the use of buttons.