Assistive robotics get boost from software developments
From: Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology - 12/22/2010
By: Rodney H. Brown

When one thinks about robotics-based assisting technologies — be they for
therapeutic, rehabilitating or prosthetic uses — one usually thinks about the
hardware. After all, it’s pretty easy to get caught up in the amazing images
of metal and electronics that have been shaped into a semblance of a human
arm, in the case of Dean Kamen’s “Luke” artificial limb from DEKA Research. 

But experts in the industry say the real trick has been the software that
runs such devices, and that software is now reaching a level of
sophistication where even greater innovations will happen, and that means
even better outcomes for the patients that use the technologies. 

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http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2010/12/20/weekly6-Assistive-robotics-get-boost-from-software-developments.html

Links:
Hocoma Inc.
http://www.hocoma.com/en/

Lokomat
http://www.hocoma.com/en/products/lokomat/

Interactive Motion Technologies Inc.
http://interactive-motion.com/

InMotion
http://interactive-motion.com/technology.htm