Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Prog Brain Res. 2011;192:59-68. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53355-5.00004-X.
Robotic technology can provide innovative responses to the severe challenges of providing cost-effective care to restore sensory-motor function following neurological and biomechanical injury. It may be deployed at several points on a continuum of care, to provide precisely controlled sensory-motor therapy to ameliorate disability and promote recovery of function, or to provide assistance to compensate for functions that cannot be recovered, or to replace limbs lost irretrievably. This chapter reviews recent progress using robotic technology to capitalize on neural plasticity and promote recovery after neurological injury such as stroke (cerebral vascular accident), research on brain-computer interfaces as a source of control signals for assistive technologies, and research on high-performance multiple-degree-of-freedom upper-extremity prosthetic limbs.
机器人技术可以为提供具有成本效益的护理以恢复神经和生物力学损伤后的感觉运动功能提供创新的应对方案。它可以在护理连续体的几个点上部署，以提供精确控制的感觉运动治疗，以减轻残疾并促进功能恢复，或提供辅助功能以补偿无法恢复的功能，或替代不可挽回地丧失的肢体。本章回顾了使用机器人技术利用神经可塑性促进神经损伤后恢复的最新进展，如中风（脑血管意外），研究脑机接口作为辅助技术的控制信号源，以及研究高性能多自由度上肢假肢。
