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We are excited to share the news: our paper about intent detection in SCI patients declared complete is now out on Brain. In this work, mainly conducted at the Rummelsberg Clinic for Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation, under the guidance of Dr. Matthias Ponfick, and by Alessandro Del Vecchio's team a...

Good news for all people interested in knowing more about Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics!

The AIROB team will deal with stroke rehabilitation in the next 3 years, thanks to a project which we have just acquired. The project is called AutoAssist and is a cooperation between us, the IBMT Fraunhofer, Ottobock, NEEEU! Spaces, Deutsche Telekom MMS and Teigler GmbH. We are also extremely pl...

We are glad to highlight Andrea Gigli's latest achievement, a paper about unsupervised myocontrol which just appeared on the Journal of Neural Engineering. Unsupervised myocontrol is an amazing, novel way to understand an amputated person's intent to move, and this paper clearly demosntrates its ...

In the frame of an international exchange programme generously supported by the University of Jember and the Indonesian Government, Claudio is spending two weeks in lovely Jember, East Java, Indonesia, at the local university. He will be teaching, contributing to workshops and consulting for the ...

Our new open-access article Omnidirectional endpoint force control through Functional Electrical Stimulation by Sierotowicz et al. was published in Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express. We present the MyoCeption, a wearable surface Functional Electrical Stimulation device able to control ...

Mr. Francesco Vichi, currently a M.Sc. student at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa (Italy) will be spending one month at AIROB, on a scientific cooperation with the Neurorobotic Touch Laboratory headed by Prof. Calogero Oddo. We will be exploring interesting applications of tactile sensing base...

AIROB team starts designing hybrid solutions combining tendon-driven exosuits and Functional Electrical Stimulation for the rehabilitation of paretic patients.

At last, here is a somewhat detailed video interview appearing on the website of MEDICA, possibly the largest and most interesting trade fair for medical technology. In the interview, introduced by Dr. Matthias Ponfick of the Hospital for Spinal Cord Injuries in Rummelsberg and Claudio Castellini...

An interview on the basics of myoelectric prostheses and the EU-funded project IntelliMan has now been published in the magazine Klinik Management Aktuell (KMA). In this interview featuring Prof. Claudio Castellini and Fabio Egle, the basic principles of myoelectric prostheses, current comfort and a...