Mobile Ankle-foot Exoneuromusculoskeleton

Long-term rehabilitation after stroke is challenging, because of insufficient professional manpower for one-to-one intervention manually, expanding stroke populations and disturbances to the traditional service in a pandemic. Mobile ankle-foot exoneuromusculoskeleton is a hybrid robot for poststroke ankle-foot rehabilitation. The robot integrates multi-modal advantages of exoskeleton, soft pneumatic muscle, neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) and tactile sensory feedback in one system for a light-weight wearable design to correct poststroke foot-drop and foot-inversion effectively. The robot is an IoT device networking the professionals and multiple users in distributed locations for managing rehabilitation progresses and preventing drop-out in the training with incentive schemes.