ROBERT

DESCRIPTION

ROBERT is a Medical-Robots from Life Science Robotics. It is built for Medical-Assistance, Rehabilitation. Key figures: 165 kg.

ROBERT is Life Science Robotics' rehabilitation robot, a mobile robotic arm on a wheeled base that acts as a co-therapist for physiotherapists and occupational therapists. It delivers intensive, repetitive functional training of the legs and arms, so patients can keep exercising until fatigue while the therapist's physical workload drops. It is aimed at patients after stroke and other acquired or traumatic brain injury, with cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury or multiple sclerosis, and after orthopaedic injuries of the hip, knee, ankle, shoulder or elbow. The therapist records an exercise by guiding the patient's limb by hand (plug, attach, record, play), and ROBERT then repeats it in passive mobilisation for severely affected patients, active assistive mobilisation, or active resistive mobilisation adjusted to the patient's strength. The Lower Extremity configuration trains hip, knee and ankle movements in supine, lateral, prone or sitting positions; the Upper Extremity Module adds shoulder, elbow and forearm exercises and complex activity-of-daily-living movements with real objects in a 3D workspace, seated or lying. An add-on Sensing and Stimulating (SAS) module uses EMG-triggered functional electrical stimulation in an assist-as-needed mode for active participation of patients with severe motor limitation. Set-up takes about three minutes, the unit can be moved to the bedside or used in station-based group training where one therapist supervises two to four patients, and reporting covers patient evaluation and progress monitoring. ROBERT is a Class IIa medical device under the Medical Device Directive 93/42/EEC and is FDA registered.

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