Rehabilitation

Motor recovery after neurological disease or injury (e.g, stroke) requires intensive, high-quality rehabilitation to retrain the nervous system through healthy movement practice. However, due to limited access to skilled therapists, many individuals receive insufficient or ineffective therapy. Rehabilitation robots offer a scalable solution to this access gap, but many open questions remain on how to control these devices effectively to promote meaningful recovery.

Drawing on neuroscientific understanding of disease and recovery mechanisms, biosensing technologies like surface electromyography and motion capture, and emerging machine learning and robot control methodologies, we work to build robot-mediated therapy systems for the upper limb that are personalized, provably engaging, and ultimately, rehabilitative. Check out our publications below for our most recent results, and visit our contact page to get involved as a device user.