Intelligent, Affordable Rehab Robot to Help Stroke Patients

Professor Mihailidis

U of T's Alex Mihailidis Designs Table-Top Technology
by Erin Vollick for U of T News

Associate Professor Alex Mihailidis Rehabilitation is crucial after a stroke. Yet patients don’t always do their exercises because they’re boring or difficult to do at home.

But what if you could make them easy and fun?

Enter University of Toronto Associate Professor Alex Mihailidis of the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the Faculty of Medicine and his intelligent, table-top robot.

"This new robot will help to advance the use of robotics in stroke rehab," said Mihailidis, “as it will provide an affordable and accessible technology that can be used in hospitals, clinics, and in the home.”

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(copied from StrokeNewz)