Ronit Feingold-Polak, PhD- Robotics- Humanoid Robot-Based Physical Therapy for Neurological Rehabilitation
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
This is where Feingold sees an opportunity for robotics to engage and motivate patients to maintain the necessary amount of therapy. Currently in the works is the development of a humanlike, inviting, and friendly robot designed to guide and encourage patients through upper extremity exercises.
In its final form, the robot should be able to detect and ensure that the patient is performing each exercise correctly. By incorporating a variety of interactive games throughout the exercises, it is hoped that patients will feel more engaged with and excited about the work needed in order to reach maximum recovery.
Tune in to hear the details, and visit http://shelly453.wixsite.com/levy-tzedek-lab to learn more about this ongoing research.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.6 | Future Technologies are always to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:17.8 | We're just around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:27.2 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Future Tech podcast. |
| 0:31.1 | My guest is Ms. Renete Feingold Pollack. |
| 0:33.7 | She's doing PhD work on using robotics and rehabilitation for people that have had strokes. So you doing Renee? I'm great, thank you. How are you? Good, good. And I know it's late over there. You know, I'm in the U.S. She's in Israel, so it's like midnight and all that. So I appreciate you being on late. Yeah, that's okay. Yeah, so tell me a little bit about what made you get into this field. |
| 0:54.5 | What interests you in, you know, using robotics to help people that have had strokes, rehabs. |
| 0:59.4 | Well, I'm a physical therapist. |
| 1:02.1 | Actually, I'm quite away from technology. |
| 1:05.5 | I've been practicing since 2002. |
| 1:10.3 | And when I was looking for a PhD project, I met Dr. Shaliyo Tzedek. She's from |
| 1:16.1 | Banguion University in the Negev. And we started talking about robotics, and she had all |
| 1:22.7 | kind of nice ideas. So I thought that could be really interesting and as long as I go with the project |
| 1:32.0 | it gets more and more interesting. This is something I don't have experience in, so it was |
| 1:38.2 | really a great project and I really believe in this field for rehabilitation. |
| 1:43.3 | What is the field called? |
| 1:45.0 | Is it like robotic assisted rehabilitation or what would you call it? |
| 1:49.0 | Well, we actually, the product that I'm working on is a humanoid robotic for rehabilitation, |
| 1:55.0 | but yes, in general you could get, you could call it robotics for rehabilitation or assistive robotic for rehabilitation. |
| 2:03.3 | So, all right, interesting. So in your physical therapy work, do you deal with people that |
| 2:08.0 | have had strokes a lot and do you feel like a kinship with them? Is that why specifically |
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