{"id":334726,"date":"2024-02-27T09:30:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T08:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=334726"},"modified":"2024-02-27T09:30:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T08:30:48","slug":"exoskeleton-to-help-with-hand-rehabilitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/exoskeleton-to-help-with-hand-rehabilitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Exoskeleton to help with hand rehabilitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers from the Warsaw University of Technology and the \u0141ukasiewicz Industrial Institute for Automation and Measurements have developed an exoskeleton that will help in the rehabilitation of the hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exoskeleton was developed for people who, as a result of an accident or illness, cannot move their upper limb at all or whose range of movement has been significantly reduced.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The device consists of printed parts connected by driven rotating pairs or free sliding bearings&#8221;, says Piotr Falkowski, a PhD student from the Warsaw University of Technology and project leader.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The structure is applied to the entire upper limb. It supports the movements of the shoulder and elbow joint through the appropriate control of electric drives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to PW, the prototype of the exoskeleton is already ready. It weighs 8.4 kg and has been 3D printed. The target solution, however, needs to be lighter and perhaps even more robust.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Warsaw University of Technology and the \u0141ukasiewicz Industrial Institute for Automation and Measurements have developed an exoskeleton that will help in the rehabilitation of the hand. The exoskeleton was developed for people who, as a result of an accident or illness, cannot move their upper limb at all or whose range of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":334634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334734,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334726\/revisions\/334734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}