Rehabilitation Robotics

Our Rehabilitation Exoskeletons:

Rehabilitation robots are specifically designed to assist, guide and assess a patient's movements during therapy. Based on more than a decade of experience in building exoskeletons for upper-​limb rehabilitation we developed our latest exoskeleton ANYexo. This robot uses lightweight design, series elastic actuation, and innovative kinematics that enable the robot to interact with patient’s movements to train almost all activities of daily living.

Patients with an impairment of the central nervous system (e.g. stroke, traumatic brain injury) commonly loose a part of their motor control function. This disability hinders their participation in daily life and often induces chronic pain. These patients receive intensive functional and occupational therapy to recover the movement ability by inducing neuroplasticity. Robots designed to assist in neuro rehabilitation have potential to improve the quality, quantity, and financial efficiency of the provided therapy.

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In close collaboration with the Sensory-Motor Systems Lab we strive to increase the robot’s autonomy during the therapy sessions by exploring novel control and design concepts. The first main challenge that we target with this collaboration is to refine the haptic interaction between patient, therapist, and robot. The second is to achieve a more efficient information exchange between the same agents. Our robots built for locomotion in unstructured terrain and automated construction work face similar challenges from a technical point of view. Therefore, we intend to learn and adapt from this know-how to develop the technology for the next generation of rehabilitation robots.  

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