Introduction

With demographic shift associated with the ageing population, there are growing demand on rehabilitation and assistive robots for managing both cognitive and physical declines. Rehabilitation robotics includes therapy robots for cognitive/ physical therapies, and assistive robots for augmenting physical and social interaction. Every year, millions of people worldwide suffer from stroke and for those surviving, many are left disabled. Physical independence is closely coupled with dignity and social inclusion, and the potential for developing new technologies in this area is limitless. Rehabilitation robotics also plays an important role for managing sports injuries, post-surgical recovery, and chronic sensorimotor deficits.

Research Interests

• Wearable robotics and soft exoskeletons
• Human-robot interaction
• Upper/lower limb rehabilitation robotics
• Social robotics for rehabilitation
• Smart protheses and implants
• Hospital/home patient transfer and assistive robots