AIMC Topic: Robotics

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Trust in socially assistive robots: Considerations for use in rehabilitation.

Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
Incorporation of social robots into rehabilitation calls for understanding what factors affect user motivation and success of the interaction. Trust between the user and the robot has been identified as important in human-robot interaction and in hum...

Influences of the biofeedback content on robotic post-stroke gait rehabilitation: electromyographic vs joint torque biofeedback.

Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
BACKGROUND: Add-on robot-mediated therapy has proven to be more effective than conventional therapy alone in post-stroke gait rehabilitation. Such robot-mediated interventions routinely use also visual biofeedback tools. A better understanding of bio...

Robotic Systems in Operating Theaters: New Forms of Team-Machine Interaction in Health Care.

Methods of information in medicine
BACKGROUND: Health information systems have developed rapidly and considerably during the last decades, taking advantage of many new technologies. Robots used in operating theaters represent an exceptional example of this trend. Yet, the more these s...

Assistive robots to improve the independent living of older persons: results from a needs study.

Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
BACKGROUND: More than 70% of elderly people age 80 and older are experiencing problems in personal mobility. Assistive robotics can represent a concrete support providing also a support for caregivers, clinicians and nurses by reducing their burden.

Oncological and anorectal functional outcomes of robot-assisted intersphincteric resection in lower rectal cancer, particularly the extent of sphincter resection and sphincter saving.

Surgical endoscopy
BACKGROUND: Few investigations to date assessing the effectiveness of robot-assisted intersphincteric resection (ISR) have included sufficient patients and follow-up period. This study assessed the utility and safety of robot-assisted ISR by comparin...

Validation of computerized square-drawing based evaluation of motor function in patients with stroke.

Medical engineering & physics
Human-administered clinical scales are commonly used for quantifying motor performance and determining the course of therapy in post-stroke individuals. Computerized methods aim to improve consistency, resolution and duration of patients' evaluation....

Robot-Assisted Arm Training in Chronic Stroke: Addition of Transition-to-Task Practice.

Neurorehabilitation and neural repair
. Robot-assisted therapy provides high-intensity arm rehabilitation that can significantly reduce stroke-related upper extremity (UE) deficits. Motor improvement has been shown at the joints trained, but generalization to real-world function has not ...

Transoral robotic surgery for hilo-parenchymal submandibular stones: step-by-step description and reasoned approach.

International journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery
The conservative transoral approach to hilo-parenchymal submandibular stones has been proposed as an alternative to traditional sialadenectomy. The main purpose is to preserve the gland and eliminate the risk of a cervical scar and damage to the marg...

Children's Fear and Pain During Medical Procedures: A Quality Improvement Study With a Humanoid Robot.

The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres
BACKGROUND: Pediatric patients undergo a variety of painful medical procedures.

Multifunctional and biodegradable self-propelled protein motors.

Nature communications
A diversity of self-propelled chemical motors, based on Marangoni propulsive forces, has been developed in recent years. However, most motors are non-functional due to poor performance, a lack of control, and the use of toxic materials. To overcome t...