GineersNow Engineering Magazine Issue 005
GineersNow Engineering Magazine July 2016 Issue No. 005 Masdar: The Future of Sustainable City in Abu Dhabi, UAE Exclusive Stories: Future cities, smart cities, robotics, artificial intelligence, deep learning, digital migration, exoskeleton, social good, information technologies. Special feature stories: HVAC, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, MEP contractors, construction, civil engineering, chemical, petrochemicals, oil & gas, water and wastewater, nano filtration, ultra filtration, desalination, reverse osmosis. Country Focus: United Arab Emirates (Dubai, Abu Dhabi), Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, United States, Canada, Australia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam. https://www.gineersnow.com/topics/magazines
GineersNow Engineering Magazine July 2016 Issue No. 005
Masdar: The Future of Sustainable City in Abu Dhabi, UAE
Exclusive Stories: Future cities, smart cities, robotics, artificial intelligence, deep learning, digital migration, exoskeleton, social good, information technologies.
Special feature stories: HVAC, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, MEP contractors, construction, civil engineering, chemical, petrochemicals, oil & gas, water and wastewater, nano filtration, ultra filtration, desalination, reverse osmosis.
Country Focus: United Arab Emirates (Dubai, Abu Dhabi), Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, United States, Canada, Australia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam.
https://www.gineersnow.com/topics/magazines
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A revolutionary device is<br />
now being developed<br />
in the laboratory of<br />
AndrosRobotics (AR) LLC<br />
which will help stroke<br />
patients and physical<br />
therapists in gait training.<br />
The device is called the<br />
Robotic Leg Advancement<br />
Device (R-LAD).<br />
The device will primarily<br />
help physical therapists in<br />
administering gait training.<br />
It will reduce the number of<br />
physical therapists required<br />
in treating a patient from<br />
2 or 3 to just one, without<br />
compromising the gait<br />
training therapy. But it<br />
isn’t designed to replace<br />
the therapists and is meant<br />
to compliment them.<br />
NEW ROBOTIC DEVICE<br />
TO ASSIST PHYSICAL<br />
THERAPISTS<br />
R-LAD is the brainchild<br />
of Dr. Maciej Pietrusinski,<br />
Founder and President<br />
of AR, whose career is<br />
dedicated to medical<br />
robotics. The device<br />
is a by-product of Dr.<br />
Pietrusinski’s Ph.D.<br />
project which aimed to<br />
develop a robotic system<br />
for controlling pelvic<br />
motion during therapy.<br />
The original system was<br />
too complicated and too<br />
expensive which led to the<br />
simpler R-LAD device.<br />
A prototype was made<br />
thanks to a $225k grant<br />
from National Science<br />
Foundation. This grant<br />
paved the way for R-LAD<br />
to place third among<br />
664 submissions in the<br />
International Robotics<br />
for Good competition in<br />
Dubai.<br />
Photo by: Google/Sites<br />
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JULY 2016<br />
Future Cities & Robotics
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