Robots with "physiotherapist" function to qualify injured workers

 

 

6/23/2020

 

A team of researchers in Canada succeeded in training robots to guide injured workers in performing a range of physical tasks and training as part of their treatment and rehabilitation programs after an accident.

The study team at the University of Alberta, Canada, concluded that robots that work with artificial intelligence technologies can help well in providing types of training for injured workers in order to measure their capabilities after exposure to work accidents and rehabilitate them again.

"This study will lead to improving the methods of rehabilitative treatment and help to speed up the return of the injured to their work after recovery from the injury," the website, "Phys dot org", a specialist in technology, was quoted by researcher Doug Gross, an expert in physical therapy at the College of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Alberta as saying.

The idea of ​​the new technique relies on training the robot to accompany the injured during the rehabilitation treatment and provide him with assistance, such as helping him to raise the injured foot so that he can move, for example. The robot can also monitor the patient's movements, and report to the treating physician in order to measure the degree of patient's progress.

Robots can be counted on to help patients without the need for a nurse or human assistant during a physiotherapy session.