Current health services are struggling to provide optimal rehabilitation therapy to victims of stroke. This has motivated researchers to explore the use of robotic devices to provide rehabilitation therapy for strokepatients. This paper reviews the recent progress of upper limb exoskeleton robots for rehabilitation treatment of patients with neuromuscular disorders. Firstly, a brief introduction to rehabilitation robots will be given along with examples of existing commercial devices. The advancements in upper limb exoskeleton technology and the fundamental challenges in developing these devices are described. Potential areas for future research are discussed.

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A 28-year-old woman, with incomplete spinal cord injury at the C2 level, classified as American Spinal Injury Impairment Scale C (AIS), participated in a robotic rehabilitation program 29 months after injury. Robotic training was provided to both upper extremi-ties using the MAHI Exo-II, an exoskeleton device designed for rehabilitation of the upper limb, for 12 × 3-h sessions over 4 weeks. Training involved elbow flexion/extension, forearm supination/pronation, wrist flexion/extension, and radial/ulnar deviation.
Results: Outcome measures were Action Research Arm Test, Jebsen-Taylor Hand Function Test, and AIS-upper extremity motor score. Sa-fety measures included fatigue, pain and discomfort level using a 5-point rating scale. Following training, improvements were ob-served in the left arm and hand function, whereas the right arm and hand function showed no improvement in any of the functional outcome measures. No excessive pain, discomfort or fatigue was reported. Conclusion: Data from one subject demonstrate valuable information on the feasibility, safety and effectiveness of robotic-assisted training of upper-extremity motor functions after in-complete spinal cord injury.

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Остин Уитни не хотел заканчивать колледж в инвалидной коляске. И он вместе со студентами-конструкторами из лаборатории «Kaz Lab» при Калифорнийском университете в Беркли соорудил машину, которая позволила ему встать и пройти по сцене в день присуждения университетских степеней.

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Аурели Ригли 25 лет. Она инженер по мехатронике, научной дисциплине, которая сочетает в себе механику и электронику. Она — летчик-испытатель Геркулеса, первого французского и европейского экзоскелета, который впервые представляется на выставке Милиполь, являющейся большим местом встречи профессионалов в области безопасности.

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Currently, over a billion people including children (or about 15% of the world’s population) are estimated to be living with disability. The lack of support services can make handicapped people overly dependent on their families, which prevents from being economically active and socially included. The Internet of Things can offer people with disabilities the assistance and support they need to achieve a good quality of life and allows them to participate in the social and economic life. In this paper, an overview of the Internet of Things for people with disabilities is provided. For this purpose, the proposed architecture of the Internet of Things is introduced. Different application scenarios are considered in order to illustrate the interaction of the components of the Internet of Things. Critical challenges have been identified and addressed.

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