Robotics and Artificial Intelligence to Improve Health Rehabilitation

A Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) spin-off, Inrobics Social Robotics, S.L.L., has developed a robotic device that provides an innovative motor and cognitive rehabilitation service that can be used at health centres as well as at home. Inrobics was created using research results from the University's Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The entrepreneurial team has developed a platform made up of four elements: a robot that interacts with the patient, an artificial intelligence system that uses a 3D sensor to control the robot, an application that can be used by health care staff to set up and track sessions, and a cloud-based storage system which contains information and analytics from all of the rehabilitation processes. "The 3D sensor allows us to know the patient's position at all times. For further information see the IDTechEx report on New Robotics and Drones 2018-2038: Technologies, Forecasts, Players. "For example, we know if they are raising their arm, but we also know if they turn their spine to compensate for difficulty when doing so.