Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Vincent Berenz

Takashi Izuo

Hitoshi Yamada

Soya Takagi

Masashi Yamashita

Shingo Shimoda

Fady Sk Shibata Alnajjar

A rehabilitation system that assists an action of a paretic arm due to brain damage, such as a stroke, includes: a detecting unit configured to detect an assist action that a healthy arm assists the paretic arm; an assist unit configured to cause the paretic arm to carry out bending and stretching actions; an adjustment unit configured to adjust an operation timing, operation speed, bending load or stretching load of the assist unit in response to detection of the assist action by the detecting unit; and a control unit configured to cause the assist unit to operate in accordance with the operation timing, operation speed, bending load or stretching load, adjusted by the adjustment unit.

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Nagoya, Japan

Vincent Berenz