Hangzhou RoboCT Technology Development Co., maker of rehabilitation robots in China, has scored $15.7 million in a Series A+ funding round led by Fortune Capital. The investing round was also ...

URI Physical Therapy Professor Mariusz Furmanek, working with engineering professors Reza Abiri and Yalda Shahriari, demonstrates the cutting-edge closed-loop feedback system to monitor the muscle and ...

My recent confinement at the Chinese General Hospital turned out to be an interesting learning – and discovery – experience. Passing by the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, I had to pause at the ...

When someone has suffered a stroke, they often have difficulty relaying commands from their brain to other parts of their body, such as their limbs. A new robotic system, known as NCyborg, may one day ...

Strokes, which occur when the blood supply to part of our brain is interrupted or reduced, are the leading cause of death and disability in the adult population. Among the patients who survive, 75% ...

Eric Iler may not be able to leave the hospital, but thanks to a robot called Well-E, he’s getting the chance to spend the day at the zoo with his family.Iler controlled the Well-E from his room at ...

A team from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and Brown University has shown that people can ‘sense’ a humanoid robot’s ...

Researchers from the Italian Institute of Technology and Brown University in the US have found that people can “sense” a robot’s hand as an extension of their body. They found that performing a joint ...

Strokes have a debilitating effect on quality of life; the combination of cognitive and physical effects can be especially devastating. A new study showed that moderate to severe hand and arm ...

I was in Berkeley a couple of months back, helping TechCrunch get its proverbial ducks in a row before our first big climate event (coming in a few weeks, folks). Professor Ken Goldberg, who’s helped ...