Bioengineering study of a motor rehabilitation system using a metal hydride actuator

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In an aging society, there is concern that the population of bedridden elderly people will increase due to diseases and injuries such as cerebral strokes and bone fractures. From this social background, we have been developing a motor rehabilitation system using a soft metal hydride actuator for home health care and joint rehabilitation to help prevent disuse syndromes. To address the above concerns, we studied the effect of passive joint exercise and the evaluation index of fall risk for elderly people based on biomedical experiments, and developed a human-friendly soft actuator using an MH alloy for the compact source of a driving force, many of which were undertaken in collaboration between medicine and engineering.