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 explore how robots make a difference to people’s quality of life by supporting recovery or helping them to cope with everyday living. They ask questions to help them better understand the specific problems.
How can robots be designed to support patients to develop fine motor skills and muscle strength?
Learners explore how to use microcontrollers. They then produce a design specification and annotated sketches of a game interface to support the physical recovery from injury or illness.
How can I control a device using movement?
Learners explore how the accelerometer in the microcontroller can be controlled 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
