Robot and robotechnology news
01.01.1970 //Suit- robot for the rehabilitation of the paralyzed people.
The Japanese company Matsushita presented the new development, which will help to be rehabilitated to the partially paralyzed people - special robotized suit. When person, who suffers paralysis to one hand, makes by healthy hand, the paralyzed hand makes the same motion, straining and bending the compressors, which play the role of musculature. Repeating the motions of healthy hand, man in the robotized suit can train his sick hand to the restoration of the normal functioning of extremity. Suit weighs only 1,8 kg. he was developed together by company Activelink (it belongs Matsushita Electric) and by university from suit weighs only 1,8 kg. The idea of invention, which belongs to managing director Activelink To keysuke Of ueda (Keisuke Ueda), arrived suddenly during visit of one of the hospitals of Japan. Keysuke Of ueda attentively listened the doctors, who described that by them it is necessary for the rehabilitation of patients. After this Ueda it immediately studied the development of suit- robot. Will be soon carry ouied the tests of the robotized suit in the hospital Yogo, after which it is planned to place production on the commercial footing up to 2009. The approximate price of suit for the use in the rehabilitative clinics will be 17000 dollars, for the domestic use - about 2000 dollars.