Iranian researchers have unveiled the country's first physiotherapy robot, dubbed "Hexa", designed to improve the lives of the elderly and people with mobility impairments. The robot, an "exoskeleton" device, was showcased at the first ideation event focused on innovation in elderly welfare, health, and wellness in Mashhad.
Hyundai Motor Group (the Group) has showcased the use of its ‘X-ble Medical Exoskeleton (X-ble MEX)’ walking rehabilitation robot in aiding the recovery of injured soldiers with the release of a new campaign video titled ‘10M March’. The video can be viewed on the Group’s official YouTube channel here.
In recent years, rehabilitation robots have become increasingly popular in the field of healthcare, able to mimic the movements of a therapist and enhance patients' mobility through carefully designed control methods. A team from the Automation College of Beijing Institute of Technology, led by Kexin Hu, Zhongjing Ma, Suli Zou, Jian Li, and Haoran Ding, in collaboration with collaborators from the University College London, has recently proposed a novel impedance sliding mode control method that combines stiffness scheduling technology, which has brought significant advancements to rehabilitation robot systems.
