SAFER: A Rehabilitation Robot that can sense & feel the patient
A robot that can feel what a therapist feels when treating a patient, that can adjust the intensity of rehabilitation exercises at any time according to the patient's abilities and needs, and that can thus go on for hours without getting tired: it seems like fiction, and yet researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and imec have now finished a prototype that unites all these skills in one robot. With their prototype, the VUB and imec graduates of the Brubotics research cluster were among the five finalists for the important KUKA Innovation Award 2022 at the Medica Fair in German Dusseldorf.
More information: https://researchportal.vub.be/nl/projects/safer-development-of-a-wearable-sensorized-cuff-for-data-driven-r
Funding: Industrieel Onderzoeks Fonds (IOFPOC58)
RERE PIs: Prof. David Beckwée & Prof. Eva Swinnen