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The Rehabilitation Robotics Group is a joint research group of the Automation Technology Division at Fraunhofer Institute IPK, Berlin, and the Industrial Automation Technology Group, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at Technical University of Berlin. The group is lead by Fraunhofer IPK. Rehabilitation Technology and Robotics is one of the main research and development (R&D) areas within the strategic research focus Human-centered Automation Technology of the automation technology research at Fraunhofer IPK and TU Berlin. Our mission is the development of assistive technical devices that allow handicapped persons to maintain individual mobility or regain voluntary motor control and ADL (Activities of Daily Living) competence for individuals who lost it due to impairment (e.g. stroke, spinal cord injury), because independent mobility and manual manipulation ability are the major bases for active participation in community and working life. Current research projects include the HapticWalker, the world's first universal robotic walking simulator for gait rehabilitation therapy of patients with impairments of the Central Nervous System (CNS), e.g. after stroke. The first high-performance prototype, which received several awards already, was developed in close collaboration with leading rehabilitation physicians and therapists from Charité University Hospital, Berlin. Mechatronic and robotic assistive devices offer a variety of new perspectives for numerous areas of rehabilitation and care for affected individuals (e.g. maintain or regain independent mobility) and patients (e.g. inpatient, outpatient and home rehab therapy) as well as for physicians, therapists and caregivers. Some of these application areas are:
Due to the combined expertise of researchers from Fraunhofer IPK and TU Berlin we are able to offer R&D services from basic research to industrial prototype development and technology consulting. Our R&D expertise includes the following areas:
If you would like to get more information about our work and services, please do not hesitate to contact us. You can download a flyer in PDF format (in German) containing further information about our group here.
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