A former surgeon's biology-inspired startup is creating soft robotic cells that could transform how intelligent machines are ...

Once regarded as a journey marked by prolonged recovery, considerable discomfort, and months of rehabilitation, knee ...

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) yesterday announced the development of a robotic arm to facilitate self-help and upper-limb mobile rehabilitation for stroke patients. The robotic arm, ...

Researchers have developed a robotic clothing technology that helps elderly people, people with disabilities and ...

Conventional therapies for severe musculoskeletal and neurological injuries require lengthy recovery periods, which may result in residual disabilities. As an innovative rehabilitation approach, the ...

The group provides wide expertise in precision manipulation, robot hands, hand exoskeletons, kinematics, haptics and wearable ...

Hand rehabilitation research has markedly benefited from the introduction of soft actuators in gloves. However, existing soft rehabilitation glove designs have several limitations in finger movements.

(A) A user wears the EMG-driven EVF-robot. (B) The application on a smartphone serving as a user interface. (C) The pneumatic fingers embedded in an elastic textile glove. The electro-vibro-feedback ...

Claire chatted to Allison Okamura from Stanford University about developing advanced robotic systems for haptic (touch) ...