Teaching motor skills without a motor: a semi-passive robot to facilitate learning - Augenstein TE, Remy CD, Claflin ES, Ranganathan R, Krishnan C.

Semi-passive rehabilitation robots resist and steer a patient's motion using only controllable passive force elements (e.g., controllable brakes). Contrarily, passive robots use uncontrollable passive force elements (e.g., springs), while active robots use...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news