As in many other fields, robots are increasingly being used in the healthcare sector, particularly
for hospital logistics support, surgery and rehabilitation. Rehabilitation is a concern for millions
of people around the world, and because of this, there has been a constant progress over the last
decade in the rehabilitation robotics field, with the use of new technologies aimed at overcoming
the different challenges faced in this field. In this sense, this paper reviews the main applications
developed in the last ten years of rehabilitation robotics, as well as the different challenges that
still need to be addressed in order to achieve the design of a prototype that is easy to use, small,
safe, less costly and brings real added value to this field. Much of the efforts of the researchers in
this topics is focused on providing as many DOF and ROM as possible, and also on the designing
of new robots control algorithms
As in many other fields, robots are increasingly being used in the healthcare sector, particularly for hospital logistics support, surgery and rehabilitation. Rehabilitation is a concern for millions of people around the world, and because of this, there has been a constant progress over the last decade in the rehabilitation robotics field, with the use of new technologies aimed at overcoming the different challenges faced in this field. In this sense, this paper reviews the main applications developed
in the last ten years of rehabilitation robotics, as well as the different challenges that still need to be addressed in order to achieve the design of a prototype that is easy to use, small, safe, less costly and brings real added value to this field. Much of the efforts of the researchers in this topics is focused on providing as many DOF and ROM as possible, and also on the designing of new robots control algorithms.
This work has been supported by SmartHealth - Inteligência Artificial para Cuidados de Saúde Personalizados ao Longo da Vida (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000045) and FCT - Funda¸c˜ao para a Ciˆencia e Tecnologia within the Project Scope: UIDB/05757/2020.
