Professor Habib Rahman, mechanical and biomedical engineering, and members of his lab demonstrated two of the assistive robotic arms for a segment on TMJ4-TV news recently.
One of the arms the lab built mounts to a wheelchair, allowing the user to safely reach and retrieve objects and perform more daily living tasks without help. The other robotic arm is designed for patients who need hand and arm physical therapy. Rahman aims to commercialize the device for home use so that patients can make progress on regaining their range of motion without traveling to a clinic.
In addition to Rahman, PhD students Md Samiul Haque Sunny (bioinformatics); Md Mahafuzer Rahman Khan (mechanical engineering), and master’s student Motakabbir Hossain (computer science) showed the robots in action. Watch the segment. Watch the segment.