Anklebot for stroke recovery

David Pescovitz 12:11 pm Tue Jul 5, 2005

Hot on the, er, heels of my post in April about a robotic exoskeleton used to retrain the arms of stroke patients, here's an Anklebot developed by MIT researchers to improve movement of paralyzed ankles. Last week, MIT and the Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center announced the establishment of a Center of Excellent on Task-Oriented Exercise and Robotics in Neurological Diseases. The aim is to develop a group of robots that can aid in rehabilitation. From the MIT News Office:

"This heralds a transition of therapeutic robotics from research to practice, similar to when computers went from being specialized number-crunchers for engineering and science to the ubiquitous consumer appliances for word-processing and presentation that we use today," said MIT Professor Neville Hogan, a principal investigator in the work who holds appointments in mechanical engineering and brain and cognitive sciences.

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