Review of Rehabilitation Robotics Applications

Review of Rehabilitation Robotics Applications

  This paper describes a review study into the application of robotics and related technologies in the domain of rehabilitation. The study originated from the awareness that advanced technologies can be made to be of great benefit to people with severe functional limitations. However, the number of devices or systems that actually make it to the market seems limited. The review study was set out to describe and analyse the state-of-the-art. It resulted in a diverse collection of prototypes, projects and pilots. The material gathered in the review is too extensive to be presented in this paper and will be published on cd-rom.