Professor and director of the Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory Jürgen Konczak, along with four colleagues from Nanyang Technical University of Singapore and the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa, Italy, have been named inventors in a recent patent that concerns robotic rehabilitation technology developed at these three institutions.
The technology consists of a robotic device to train and evaluate wrist movements. Patients with motor problems of the hand/wrist will use this device during their rehabilitation. The device has its own motors and an array of sensors that allows patients to feel and 
experience virtual haptic objects, or to provide assistive forces to the patient to guide and shape impaired wrist movements.
experience virtual haptic objects, or to provide assistive forces to the patient to guide and shape impaired wrist movements.In some training modules, like shown in the picture to the right, vision and hearing is blocked. Here patients will go through exercises that focus on improving the “feeling” or awareness of movement with the ultimate goal of improving motor function.
