ZOOMLION articulating boom lifts are aerial work platforms designed to lift workers and tools to elevated areas that are difficult to reach directly. They have booms comprising several articulated sections connected by joints, which allow the boom to bend and extend so the work platform can rise over an obstacle and then move toward the work area. These boom lifts are used on construction sites and in industrial facilities, particularly when steel structures, pipelines, or other obstacles make it difficult to reach the work area for installation or maintenance.

Scissor lifts mainly carry workers straight up, while telescopic boom lifts extend farther outward to provide greater horizontal outreach. ZOOMLION articulating boom lifts, on the other hand, move differently as their articulated booms bend to reach up and over steel structures, pipelines, or other obstacles, then position the platform near the work area. On crowded construction sites or inside industrial facilities, articulating boom lifts can carry workers past the structures or equipment blocking a direct path to where they need to work.