A smart home is a residence equipped with smart technologies aimed at providing tailored
services for users. Smart technologies make it possible to monitor, control and support …

Intelligent assistive technologies (IATs) have the potential of offering innovative solutions to
mitigate the global burden of dementia and provide new tools for dementia care. While …

Socially Assistive Robots (SAR) may help improve care delivery at home for older adults
with cognitive impairment and reduce the burden of informal caregivers. Examining the …

The population of older adults in America is expected to reach an unprecedented level in the
near future. Some of them have difficulties with performing daily tasks and caregivers may …

This paper presents the development of and clinical tests on NeReBot (NEuroREhabilitation
roBOT): a three degrees-of-freedom (DoF), wire-driven robot for poststroke upper-limb …

As the older adult population grows and becomes more diverse, so will their needs and
preferences for living environments. Many adults over 65 years of age require some …

Manipulators based on soft robotic technologies exhibit compliance and dexterity which
ensures safe human–robot interaction. This article is a novel attempt at exploiting these …

The authors focus on the possibility to adapt technologies and basic concepts of Soft
Robotics for building a new generation of soft modular manipulator for assistive robotics that …

Promoting health and prolonging independence in the home is a priority for older adults,
caregivers, clinicians, and society at large. Rapidly developing robotics technology provides …

This paper presents the design, analysis, fabrication, experimental characterization, and
evaluation of two prototypes of robotic extra fingers that can be used as grasp compensatory …