Robots good with stroke patients, autistic kids on Sympatico
‘After more than 2 1/2 years of physical therapy and electronic stimulation, stroke victim Mike Marin still couldn’t open a door with his left hand.
Now, thanks to a robot, Marin can open a door. His atrophied left arm isn’t completely useless anymore.
Marin is at the forefront of what may seem an unlikely use for robots: providing the caring human touch. For three months in rehab at a suburb north of New York, an unnamed and unlikely looking robot guided his arm repeatedly through an ordinary video game. Where normal therapy failed, the constant robot-guided repetitions worked.’
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