Abstract
Japan is entering the era of the unprecedented super-aged society. We will have many elderly and disabled people. In this situation, the emergence of rehabilitation robotics is highly anticipated. Fujita Health University is developing five kinds of rehabilitation robots ; (1) WPAL is a new gait-assist robot which reconstructs practical walking in paraplegics. (2) Independent Gait Assist is designed to assist patients with hemiplegia or lower extremity monoplegia to walk safely and comfortably. (3) Gait Exercise Assist is the robot which provides new and effective gait exercise for stroke patients with hemiplegia. (4) Balance Exercise Assist produces new balance exercises which have a lot of merits from the viewpoint of motor-learning. (5) Transfer Care Assist is aimed at reducing the physical load of caregivers, assisting the transfer and toileting of patients. Rehabilitation robots are just being realized.
