Re-Engineering Rehab 7-11
From regaining strength after injury to rebuilding fine motor skills, rehabilitation robots are transforming patient recovery. Engineers design these robots to support movement, track progress, and keep patients motivated. Learners take on the role of engineers, creating their own robot concepts to assist patients on their road to recovery.
How can robotics engineers provide solutions for physiotherapists and their patients?
Learners begin to explore how robots make a difference to people’s quality of life by supporting recovery or helping them to cope with everyday living. This challenge focuses on revealing how physiotherapists and robotics engineers work collaboratively using engineering mindsets to find creative solutions to meet the needs of different people/users.
How can robots be designed to support patients to develop fine motor skills and muscle strength?
Learners explore how to use the accelerometer sensor within the micro:bit pocket sized computer. they then design a game interface for use with a rehabilitation robot, tailored to the needs of a specific user, such as an athlete recovering from injury or someone recovering from a stroke.
How can I control a device using movement?
Within the context of designing a game to aid rehabilitation using robotics, learners explore how the accelerometer can be used through scratch, a block based programming language. Here they code a game to make use of the micro:bit as a controller, reacting to movements of their hand.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provide a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. These sessions support Goal 3 which aims to reduce global mortality, end epidemics and preventable diseases, and ensure universal health coverage by 2030
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