Background Robot-assisted therapy has become a promising technology in the field of
rehabilitation for poststroke patients with motor disorders. Motivation during the rehabilitation …

Robots in Education is an accessible introduction to the use of robotics in formal learning,
encompassing pedagogical and psychological theories as well as implementation in …

Hand-assistive devices are used to help post-stroke victims encumbered with hand
impairments perform activities of daily living (ADL). Unlike robotic rehabilitation devices …

Brain damage due to stroke often leaves survivors with lateral functional motor deficits.
Bimanual rehabilitation of the paretic arm is an active field of research aimed at restoring …

Autonomous tool manipulation tasks are challenging for robots because they must reason
over the tool's object affordances, how to grasp the tool so it may be used, how the tool will …

Robot rehabilitation is now recognized as an important method for the efficient recovery. In
European Project FP7 BioMot, we have discussed the potential of the robot rehabilitation …

Older people's healthcare is becoming a prevalent social topic in recent year since the post-
war boom babies are entering their retirement ages. The size of the aged population …

Biological control principle is the mechanism inherently built in human control systems
allowing human to interact with its environment. Two experimental studies in this thesis and …

In previous research, we designed a grasp-training robot for the post-stroke patient in
relation to its usability and wearability for ease of use in clinical practice. Experimental …

抄録 The purpose of our research is to develop a gras** training device which effectively
encourages post-stroke patient to recover functional gras** motion of a paralyzed hand …