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Robo-Therapist Still Helps Follow-up Article
Robo-Therapist Still Helps In follow-up to the Robotic Physical Therapy saga, there's an article on Wired that tackles this same issue in more depth: Robo-Therapist Helps Ailing Limbs. It describes how the 30-inch-tall robots can assist the human physiotherapists in getting humans to quickly recover motion from accidents or strokes. The robot complements the human, as very often these experts are over-worked. The MIT bot is designed to start a training program slowly, performing the motion for the patient, then eventually it applies resistance to build muscles. Given the $70,000 cost of the robot, and the price of an hour of human assisted therapy, 13 days would be enough for this robot to pay for itself... Impressive, to say the least! | Alex J. Champandard 934 posts. Wednesday 27 February, 10:48 Reply