Project co-funded from Tuscany  with the call A of the POR CREO FESR 2014-2020 funding program. MOTORevolution proposes to enhance  our product MOTORE and the marketing activities related to it, through further technical development, and in particular through firmware upgrades and porting to new hardware architecture and integration with other Humanware devices in development (to obtain synergistic effects, e.g. for simultaneous reaching and grasping/releasing activities.)

Project co-funded by EC with the ECHORD++ instruments (European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development Plus Plus –) of Horizon 2020 Framework Program.

The goal of the project was to continue the development and testing of a haptic rehabilitation robot moving on wheels named MOTORE aimed at restoring upper limb functionality and at assessing performance in patients with neurological diseases. The robot has been in fact  improved with a hardware redesign and new control strategies and new software. The robot ha also been  tested with patients at the Peccioli RIF to provide evidence of its efficacy. Part of the clinical trials have been  performed with wearable sensors (EMG, Inertial platforms, Galvanic Skin Response, Heart rate) to better understand how the therapy is delivered by the robot and to assess the awareness and the attention of the patient.

Project co-funded from Tuscany within POR CREO 2007-2013 funding program.

ASSO main activities included  the definition, design, implementation, testing and evaluation of an integrated eHealth environment to support (1) the continuity of care from hospital to home, (2) the complete clinical risk management and (3)the patient empowerment.

Project co-funded by EC with the ECHORD++ instruments (European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development Plus Plus –) of Horizon 2020 Framework Program

The experiment was focused on safe human-robot cooperation: the robot co-worker interacted with a human towards achieving the common goal of manipulating shared objects. The robot adapted its configuration and dynamics to the conditions imposed by the human operator.

A 7-DOF manipulator and a gripper was  used in combination with Humanglove (our dataglove) and ULTRA (our human motion tracker), as Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI), to perform human-robot cooperative manipulation tasks. Objects characterized by a different shape (e.g., cube, stick, sphere) and weight was used. Sensor failures and adverse conditions has considered to test the safety of the human-robot cooperative tasks. In fact ULTRA was used by the human agent in order to track the trajectory of the shared object while the robot sensor was selectively ignored. Specific control strategies has been developed, implemented and validated so that the was able to adapt the trajectory using the load cell sensors and the tracker was used to be sure that the human operator acts in a safe space.

Project co-funded from Tuscany within POR CREO 2007-2013 funding program.

SISSI projects included activities of design and development of innovative interfaces for daily remote monitoring of patients suffering from neuro-motor pathologies and or pathologies related to the old age. The aim was the integration in the field of medicine and ICT of new studies, new materials, new devices and new skills.

Project co-funded from Tuscany within POR CREO 2007-2013 funding program.

The project allowed Humanware to start the development MOTORE (MObile roboT for upper limb NeurOrtho REhabilitation), our innovative ICT mechatronic system for the rehabilitation of the upper limb of people with neurological disorders following a stroke or head injury. The device designed, prototyped and tested. Finally a clinical validation phase was carried out once the project was completed.