Robotic therapy helps patients recover
October 2nd, 2007
Therapy tiles developed by Henrik Hautop Lund, a robotics and artificial-intelligence professor at the University of Southern Denmark, aims to speed up the healing process of patients through physical routines. Each tile is actually a tiny robotic system that employs neural networks. Each time a tile is stepped upon or pressed, it will give some feedback as to whether there is enough firm pressure or if the user is moving fast enough. Just like a video game, there are single player or multiplayer (maxes out at 4 patients) aspects to it. These therapy tiles can be assembled in any configuration, be they on walls or on the floor for a challenging and intelligent game space. While it doesn’t sound as engaging as training one’s brain, at least it beats lying around in the bed all day long, staring at the ceiling.
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