This report gives a brief history of the field of Rehabilitation Robotics, and then reviews eight currently available robotic devices designed to assist patients with limb loss or in need of skeletal-muscular assistance. After detailing the use and operation of each device, this report rates each device on the basis of eight criteria of commercial and technological "success," and concludes that the technology contained in one device, the I-Limb, is the most likely to be enhanced and further developed.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Montero, Victor A
• Frumento, Christopher M
• Messier, Ethan A

Subject

• Well-Being
• Computing
• Health
• Innovation

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-031010-112312

Keyword

• Medical care
• Self-help devices for people with disabilities
• Robotics

Advisor

• Hoffman, Allen H.

Year

• 2010

Date created

• 2010-03-10

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright