Biologically Inspired Soft Robot for Thumb Rehabilitation

Publication information:

P. Maeder-York et al.,
“Biologically Inspired Soft Robot for Thumb Rehabilitation”, in Proceedings of Design of Medical Devices Conference 2014, Minneapolis, MN, 2014.

Abstract

The soft robotic thumb rehabilitation system presented in this paper is a task-oriented therapy device that replicates and restores correct thumb motor function for patients with neurologically caused hand disabilities.