RehaBot targets the medical market

A medical caregiver is not an easy profession to practice, and the help of robots would certainly come in handy. Enter the RehaBot from Hstar Technologies that is capable of helping a patient exercise his or her upper and lower limbs who are severely impaired by musculoskeletal and traumatic brain injuries. Not only that, there is also another project in the pipeline that functions as a RoNA (Robotic Nursing Assistant), where it is capable of lifting and moving patients who weigh more than 136 kg/300lbs, something that has gotten more and more common these days with rising numbers of obesity cases. The Americans are not the only ones venturing into this potentially lucrative market, as Japanese researchers are also working on a somewhat similar nursing assistant known as RIBA.

After all, nurses are not exactly the strongest people in the hospital, and they too, risk serious injury whenever they lift patients, especially those who have piled on the pounds over the years. Hstar Technologies claim that nurses tend to sustain more injuries compared to any other US profession, where the majority of it happen during the moving of patients.

Edwin Kee
Categories: Medical, Robots
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