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X1 serves indoor environments where there is a need for automated food service, including restaurants, hotels, cafes, and office buildings

The Scrubber 50 Pro's 4-in-1 solution will work alongside commercial cleaning teams scrubbing, sweeping, dust mopping, and sanitizing

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SoftBank Robotics America (SBRA), the North American arm of the global leader in robotics solutions, and Gausium, a leading solutions provider of autonomous cleaning and service robots, today announced their partnership to deploy indoor automated robotic solutions to the U.S. market. The partnership will focus on helping companies successfully adopt, integrate, and scale robotic solutions within their organizations.

X1 and the Scrubber 50 Pro (S50) are the first two solutions being deployed to support companies struggling with labor shortages or entering the next phase of transforming the way work is done.

These collaborative robots work alongside employees to alleviate menial and repetitive tasks so employees can focus on higher-value responsibilities, resulting in a boost in efficiency, improved employee and customer satisfaction, streamlined operations, and reduced employee turnover.

X1, an autonomous food service solution for the hospitality industry, is equipped with three serving trays that can hold up to 30 kilograms. Its collision-free and spill-proof technology allows X1 to run food and beverages to several tables at a time, charting the most efficient path to tables or back to the kitchen while navigating customers, employees, furniture, and other robots. The robot's advanced shock mitigation mechanisms ensure a smooth and stable delivery experience of drinks or liquid dishes. In addition to assisting with food running, X1 also helps servers more efficiently bus tables so they can spend more time with customers and turn over tables quicker.

The partnership has successfully deployed its first fleet of X1's to The Hall On The Yard, a unique 12,250-square-foot full-service food hall featuring nine restaurants in Orlando, Florida.

Following the successful commercialization and deployment of Whiz, an autonomous vacuum cleaner, SBRA is expanding its portfolio of cleaning robots and deepening its commitment to a smarter, clean and healthier environment with the introduction of the S50 Pro. S50 Pro is a 4-in-1 scrubbing, sweeping, dust mopping, and sanitizing solution. S50 Pro can simultaneously clean and disinfect floors, automatically spot clean by detecting and removing stains before they spread, and can send messages to operators when it encounters large wastes that require additional cleaning support.

"Gausium's technology is at the forefront of commercial service robots. Their products are smart, safe, and simple, enabling customers to easily adopt them into their businesses," said Brady Watkins, President of SoftBank Robotics America. "To truly solve the labor shortage many industries are facing, we are helping companies go beyond adoption and focus on the integration and scaling of their technology to maximize the value our solutions offer."

"SBRA is the right partner to bring our products to market throughout the U.S.," said Allen Zhang, Chief of Overseas Business of Gausium. "Their holistic customer support continues after the point of sale and ensures all adopters are receiving the expected return on experience and investment when utilizing our robots."

About SoftBank Robotics America

SoftBank Robotics America is the North American arm of SoftBank Robotics. SoftBank Robotics is driving technology forward by becoming a worldwide leader in robotics solutions. Rapidly expanding with offices in Tokyo, San Francisco, Boston, London, Paris, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Singapore, Sydney, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.

SoftBank Robotics is constantly exploring and commercializing robotics solutions that help make people's lives easier, safer, more connected, and more extraordinary. SoftBank Robotics' robots are used in more than 70 countries worldwide and we offer innovative applications relevant in the fields of retail, tourism, healthcare, finance, education, facilities management, cleaning, warehouse, and logistics. For more information on SoftBank Robotics America, please visit us.softbankrobotics.com.

About Gausium

Gausium (alias "Gaussian Robotics") is a leading smart solutions provider of AI-integrated autonomous service robots. Currently, Gausium's products and services include commercial floor cleaning robots, indoor delivery robots and supplementary accessories like docking stations, cloud platform and application software.

Founded in 2013, Gausium built its class-leading autonomous navigation based on advanced SLAM technology and integrated it into cleaning machines in 2017. It has since committed to providing total solutions of autonomous floor cleaning for extensive applications across industries and scenarios, and managed to set the industry benchmark with currently the world's most comprehensive commercial cleaning bot portfolio consisting of Vacuum 40, Scrubber 50, Scrubber 75 and Sweeper 111. In 2021 and 2022, Gausium launched its first autonomous delivery robot "X1" and the groundbreaking new cleaning product line "Phantas", marking the strategic expansion of its service robot ecosystem.

By 2021, Gausium's cleaning robots have been deployed in over 40 countries across 6 continents, recognized by thousands of satisfied customers with millions of autonomous operational hours accrued and billions of square meters covered.

With a vision to lead the smart digital transformation of the service sectors, Gausium will continue to bring more disruptive innovations to the world and empower more people to work smarter and lead happier lives with the products and services we provide.

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The Dextrous Robotics lab in Crosstown Concourse looks like something out of a spy movie. The floor-length tinted windows reveal vague shadowy figures moving around inside, and the door is sealed with an electronic keypad next to it, no intercom.

From the outside you would never guess that the company makes robots for moving packages. But thats exactly what the DX-1, Dextrous main project, is for. The robot was made to help unload trucks and shipping containers with human-like dexterity.

CEO Evan Drumwright and his team found inspiration for the robot from an unlikely source.

We were inspired by human chopsticks to get this strategy of being able to select all these different objects and shapes, sizes, materials, weights, in all different kinds of environments,he said.

The DX-1 is slated for release in the spring of 2023. Dextrous is already in talks with several logistics companies about leasing the machine and implementing it in warehouses and distribution centers, though they were not at liberty to give specifics about which companies.

Drumwright, who has been working in robotics for more than 20 years, started Dextrous three years ago with the goal of developing robots that can do dangerous and physically demanding tasks currently done by humans. Now, he has built a robot that can perform these tasks withsuper-human speed and efficiency.

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In the pseudo-warehouse space at the back of the lab, the team has built a testing area for the robot filled with dozens of different-sized boxes. To the side of this area are several monitors and a keyboard that Chief Technology Officer Sam Zapolsky uses to control the robot.

Once Zapolsky fires it up, the DX-1 starts by scanning a package and building a digital 3-D model to estimate its dimensions, orientation and location. Then, it creates a plan of movements needed to lift and move the package and executes it using two thin, pointed arms, which Drumwright aptly calls "chopsticks."

Currently, the robot must be remotely operated by a person, but the plan is for it to become fully automated and capable of operating independently.

Looking at the numbers, the DX-1 averages 2,000 parcel picks per hour at maximum speed and lifts up to 100 pounds. In comparison, a human worker will average up to 300 with the use of a conveyance system, as a 2017 white paper from Westernacher Consulting found.

Dextrous' release comes as many large logistics companies, including FedEx, are investing more and more in robotics for various reasons including hiring shortages and to cut labor costs.

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However, Drumwright sees the DX-1 going beyond just the logistics industry. He said the technology could eventually be implemented in many different industries such as agriculture and manufacturing.

"These are things that people are essentially trading their physical effort for money, which is really not sustainable in the long-term because its just something thats going to be replaced by a machine,he said.

Niki Scheinberg is the FedEx and logistics reporter at The Commercial Appeal. She can be reached at monika.scheinberg@commercialappeal.com.

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Peoples fear of a future where robotic dogs hunt us down while drones fly overhead have prompted several leading robotics companies to pledge not to weaponize their robots.

Axios reports that Boston Dynamics, the most famous robotics company and makers of Spot the Robot, have signed a pledge along with five other companies in order to assuage concerns over their products.

Along with Agility Robotics, ANYbotics, Clearpath Robotics, Open Robotics and Unitree Robotics, Boston Dynamics signed an open letter to the robotics industry and our communities, saying that General Purpose Robots Should Not Be Weaponized.

The full letter says that the companies will not weaponize their general-purpose robots, nor the software they develop for advanced robotics, and they will not support others to do so. In the pledge, they say they will review what their customers are buying robots for in order to prevent potential weaponization.

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We understand that our commitment alone is not enough to fully address these risks, and therefore we call on policymakers to work with us to promote safe use of these robots and to prohibit their misuse. We also call on every organization, developer, researcher, and user in the robotics community to make similar pledges not to build, authorize, support, or enable the attachment of weaponry to such robots. We are convinced that the benefits for humanity of these technologies strongly outweigh the risk of misuse, and we are excited about a bright future in which humans and robots work side by side to tackle some of the worlds challenges, says the Boston Dynamics letter, which you can read in its entirety on Axios.

Meanwhile, Oculus founder Palmer Luckeys new company, Anduril, just proudly announced the weaponization of their drones.

In the field of robotics, some people also got extremely creative, as is the case with the Russians who ordered a robot dog on AliExpress and strapped a submachine gun to it.

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This way the creators of the robotic hand are able to generate the required pneumatic pressure (to move its different parts) without employing any heavy external air pumps. As the pressure inside the balloons changes, the mesh tubes contract or expand accordingly. Moreover, the robotic hand has a total of 36 artificial muscles.

Similar to the muscles of a normal human hand, the artificial muscles also have 27 degrees of freedom, meaning that the robot's thumbs and fingers can move, rotate, and hold just like the way their human counterparts do. The Clone Robotics team suggests that In the future, their artificial hand could be used as an appliance to perform various tasks in homes, factories, and laboratories, plus, it also has the potential to make humanoids more advance than ever.

Robotic arm holding a tennis ball.

The engineers at Clone Robotics didnt achieve success in creating the V15 robotic hand on their first attempt. Getting the hand work without air pumps was just one challenge. Initially, the hand weighed 18.3 lbs (8.3 kg), contained only 20 muscles, and could work for up to 5000 cycles. The engineers kept on improving their model until they were able to reduce its weight to 9.47 lbs (4.3 kgs).

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SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sarcos Technology and Robotics Corporation (Sarcos) (NASDAQ: STRC and STRCW), a leading developer of highly dexterous robotic systems that enhance productivity, improve safety, and bring robots to unstructured and diverse environments, announces the appointment of Drew Hamer as chief financial officer.

Hamer is a proven finance executive with over twenty-five years of financial leadership at public and pre-public technology companies. Hamer joins Sarcos from Velodyne Lidar, where he played a central role in fund raising from strategic investors and guided the company through a public offering. In recognition of his financial leadership at Velodyne Lidar, Hamer was a finalist for the 2021 Bay Area CFO of the Year Award.

Hamer will be responsible for Sarcos financial functions including forecasting, budgeting, accounting, audit, treasury, and corporate finance. Hamer will be part of the executive leadership team and will report directly to the chief executive officer.

Were thrilled to welcome Drew to the Sarcos family, said Kiva Allgood, president and CEO, Sarcos. Drews operational and strategic financial expertise is critical as we commercialize our suite of highly dexterous robotic systems and software platforms.

Im excited to join Sarcos at this critical juncture in its growth, said Hamer. I look forward to working with the team to capture the incredible opportunity for robotics in unstructured environments.

Hamer is also a board member of Lightjump Acquisition Corporation (NASDAQ: LJAQ).

Sarcos would like to thank Steve Hansen for his hard work and contributions over the last few years.

For more information on Sarcos and its award-winning product portfolio, please visit http://www.sarcos.com.

About Sarcos Technology and Robotics Corporation

Sarcos Technology and Robotics Corporation (NASDAQ: STRC and STRCW) is a leader in industrial robotic systems that augment human performance by combining human intelligence with the strength, endurance, and precision of robotic platforms delivering dexterous robotic solutions for unstructured environments. Sarcos mobile robotic systems include a fleet of teleoperated solutions including the Guardian XT, Sapien 6M, and Sapien Sea Class. The Guardian XO, a full body powered exoskeleton, enhances worker performance by increasing lift capacity while reducing strain to the body. Sarcos supervised autonomy platform delivers computer vision and autonomy software for robust situational awareness and insight. Sarcos has two locations, Salt Lake City, Utah and Pittsburgh, PA. Shares of Sarcos trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol STRC and the companys stock was added to the Russell 2000 index in 2022. For more information, please visit http://www.sarcos.com.

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As Verne understood, the U.S. Civil War (during which 60,000 amputations were performed) inaugurated the modern prosthetics era in the United States, thanks to federal funding and a wave of design patents filed by entrepreneurial prosthetists. The two World Wars solidified the for-profit prosthetics industry in both the United States and Western Europe, and the ongoing War on Terror helped catapult it into a US $6 billion dollar industry across the globe. This recent investment is not, however, a result of a disproportionately large number of amputations in military conflict: Around 1,500 U.S. soldiers and 300 British soldiers lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Limb loss in the general population dwarfs those figures. In the United States alone, more than 2 million people live with limb loss, with 185,000 people receiving amputations every year. A much smaller subsetbetween 1,500 to 4,500 children each yearare born with limb differences or absences, myself included.

Today, the people who design prostheses tend to be well-intentioned engineers rather than amputees themselves. The fleshy stumps of the world act as repositories for these designers dreams of a high-tech, superhuman future. I know this because throughout my life I have been fitted with some of the most cutting-edge prosthetic devices on the market. After being born missing my left forearm, I was one of the first cohorts of infants in the United States to be fitted with a myoelectric prosthetic hand, an electronic device controlled by the wearers muscles tensing against sensors inside the prosthetic socket. Since then, I have donned a variety of prosthetic hands, each of them striving toward perfect fidelity of the human handsometimes at a cost of aesthetics, sometimes a cost of functionality, but always designed to mimic and replace what was missing.

In my lifetime, myoelectric hands have evolved from clawlike constructs to multigrip, programmable, anatomically accurate facsimiles of the human hand, most costing tens of thousands of dollars. Reporters cant get enough of these sophisticated, multigrasping bionic hands with lifelike silicone skins and organic movements, the unspoken promise being that disability will soon vanish and any lost limb or organ will be replaced with an equally capable replica. Prosthetic-hand innovation is treated like a high-stakes competition to see what is technologically possible. Tyler Hayes, CEO of the prosthetics startup Atom Limbs, put it this way in a WeFunder video that helped raise $7.2 million from investors: Every moonshot in history has started with a fair amount of crazy in it, from electricity to space travel, and Atom Limbs is no different.

We are caught in a bionic-hand arms race. But are we making real progress? Its time to ask who prostheses are really for, and what we hope they will actually accomplish. Each new multigrasping bionic hand tends to be more sophisticated but also more expensive than the last and less likely to be covered (even in part) by insurance. And as recent research concludes, much simpler and far less expensive prosthetic devices can perform many tasks equally well, and the fancy bionic hands, despite all of their electronic options, are rarely used for grasping.

Activity arms, such as this one manufactured by prosthetics firm Arm Dynamics, are less expensive and more durable than bionic prostheses. The attachment from prosthetic-device company Texas Assistive Devices rated for very heavy weights, allowing the author to perform exercises that would be risky or impossible with her much more expensive bebionic arm.Gabriela Hasbun; Makeup: Maria Nguyen for MAC cosmetics; Hair: Joan Laqui for Living Proof

In recent decades, the overwhelming focus of research into and development of new artificial hands has been on perfecting different types of grasps. Many of the most expensive hands on the market differentiate themselves by the number and variety of selectable prehensile grips. My own media darling of a hand, the bebionic from Ottobock, which I received in 2018, has a fist-shaped power grip, pinching grips, and one very specific mode with thumb on top of index finger for politely handing over a credit card. My 21st-century myoelectric hand seemed remarkableuntil I tried using it for some routine tasks, where it proved to be more cumbersome and time consuming than if I had simply left it on the couch. I couldnt use it to pull a door shut, for example, a task I can do with my stump. And without the extremely expensive addition of a powered wrist, I couldnt pour oatmeal from a pot into a bowl. Performing tasks the cool bionic way, even though it mimicked having two hands, wasnt obviously better than doing things my way, sometimes with the help of my legs and feet.

When I first spoke with Ad Spiers, lecturer in robotics and machine learning at Imperial College London, it was late at night in his office, but he was still animated about robotic handsthe current focus of his research. Spiers says the anthropomorphic robotic hand is inescapable, from the reality of todays prosthetics to the fantasy of sci-fi and anime. In one of my first lectures here, I showed clips of movies and cartoons and how cool filmmakers make robot hands look, Spiers says. In the anime Gundam, there are so many close-ups of gigantic robot hands grabbing things like massive guns. But why does it need to be a human hand? Why doesnt the robot just have a gun for a hand?

Its time to ask who prostheses are really for, and what we hope they will actually accomplish.

Spiers believes that prosthetic developers are too caught up in form over function. But he has talked to enough of them to know they dont share his point of view: I get the feeling that people love the idea of humans being great, and that hands are what make humans quite unique. Nearly every university robotics department Spiers visits has an anthropomorphic robot hand in development. This is what the future looks like, he says, and he sounds a little exasperated. But there are often better ways.

The vast majority of people who use a prosthetic limb are unilateral amputeespeople with amputations that affect only one side of the bodyand they virtually always use their dominant fleshy hand for delicate tasks such as picking up a cup. Both unilateral and bilateral amputees also get help from their torsos, their feet, and other objects in their environment; rarely are tasks performed by a prosthesis alone. And yet, the common clinical evaluations to determine the success of a prosthetic are based on using only the prosthetic, without the help of other body parts. Such evaluations seem designed to demonstrate what the prosthetic hand can do rather than to determine how useful it actually is in the daily life of its user. Disabled people are still not the arbiters of prosthetic standards; we are still not at the heart of design.

The Hosmer Hook [left], originally designed in 1920, is the terminal device on a body-powered design that is still used today. A hammer attachment [right] may be more effective than a gripping attachment when hammering nails into wood.Left: John Prieto/The Denver Post/Getty Images; Right: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis/Getty Images

To find out how prosthetic users live with their devices, Spiers led a study that used cameras worn on participants heads to record the daily actions of eight people with unilateral amputations or congenital limb differences. The study, published last year in IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, included several varieties of myoelectric hands as well as body-powered systems, which use movements of the shoulder, chest, and upper arm transferred through a cable to mechanically operate a gripper at the end of a prosthesis. The research was conducted while Spiers was a research scientist at Yale Universitys GRAB Lab, headed by Aaron Dollar. In addition to Dollar, he worked closely with grad student Jillian Cochran, who coauthored the study.

Watching raw footage from the study, I felt both sadness and camaraderie with the anonymous prosthesis users. The clips show the clumsiness, miscalculations, and accidental drops that are familiar to even very experienced prosthetic-hand users. Often, the prosthesis simply helps brace an object against the body to be handled by the other hand. Also apparent was how much time people spent preparing their myoelectric prostheses to carry out a taskit frequently took several extra seconds to manually or electronically rotate the wrists of their devices, line up the object to grab it just right, and work out the grip approach.The participant who hung a bottle of disinfectant spray on their hook hand while wiping down a kitchen counter seemed to be the one who had it all figured out.

In the study, prosthetic devices were used on average for only 19 percent of all recorded manipulations. In general, prostheses were employed in mostly nonprehensile actions, with the other, intact hand doing most of the grasping. The study highlighted big differences in usage between those with nonelectric, body-powered prosthetics and those with myoelectric prosthetics. For body-powered prosthetic users whose amputation was below the elbow, nearly 80 percent of prosthesis usage was nongrasping movementpushing, pressing, pulling, hanging, and stabilizing. For myoelectric users, the device was used for grasping just 40 percent of the time.

More tellingly, body-powered users with nonelectric grippers or split hooks spent significantly less time performing tasks than did users with more complex prosthetic devices. Spiers and his team noted the fluidity and speed with which the former went about doing tasks in their homes. They were able to use their artificial hands almost instantaneously and even experience direct haptic feedback through the cable that drives such systems. The research also revealed little difference in use between myoelectric single-grasp devices and fancier myoelectric multiarticulated, multigrasp handsexcept that users tended to avoid hanging objects from their multigrasp hands, seemingly out of fear of breaking them.

We got the feeling that people with multigrasp myoelectric hands were quite tentative about their use, says Spiers. Its no wonder, since most myoelectric hands are priced over $20,000, are rarely approved by insurance, require frequent professional support to change grip patterns and other settings, and have costly and protracted repair processes. As prosthetic technologies become more complex and proprietary, the long-term serviceability is an increasing concern. Ideally, the device should be easily fixable by the user. And yet some prosthetic startups are pitching a subscription model, in which users continue to pay for access to repairs and support.

Despite the conclusions of his study, Spiers says the vast majority of prosthetics R&D remains focused on refining the grasping modes of expensive, high-tech bionic hands. Even beyond prosthetics, he says, manipulation studies in nonhuman primate research and robotics are overwhelmingly concerned with grasping: Anything that isnt grasping is just thrown away.

TRS makes a wide variety of body-powered prosthetic attachments for different hobbies and sports. Each attachment is specialized for a particular task, and they can be easily swapped for a variety of activities. Fillauer TRS

If weve decided that what makes us human is our hands, and what makes the hand unique is its ability to grasp, then the only prosthetic blueprint we have is the one attached to most peoples wrists. Yet the pursuit of the ultimate five-digit grasp isnt necessarily the logical next step. In fact, history suggests that people havent always been fixated on perfectly re-creating the human hand.

As recounted in the 2001 essay collection Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, ideas about the hand evolved over the centuries. The soul is like the hand; for the hand is the instrument of instruments, Aristotle wrote in De Anima. He reasoned that humanity was deliberately endowed with the agile and prehensile hand because only our uniquely intelligent brains could make use of itnot as a mere utensil but a tool for apprehensio, or grasping, the world, literally and figuratively.

More than 1,000 years later, Aristotles ideas resonated with artists and thinkers of the Renaissance. For Leonardo da Vinci, the hand was the brains mediator with the world, and he went to exceptional lengths in his dissections and illustrations of the human hand to understand its principal components. His meticulous studies of the tendons and muscles of the forearm and hand led him to conclude that although human ingenuity makes various inventionsit will never discover inventions more beautiful, more fitting or more direct than nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

Da Vincis illustrations precipitated a wave of interest in human anatomy. Yet for all of the studious rendering of the human hand by European masters, the hand was regarded more as an inspiration than as an object to be replicated by mere mortals. In fact, it was widely accepted that the intricacies of the human hand evidenced divine design. No machine, declared the Christian philosopher William Paley, is more artificial, or more evidently so than the flexors of the hand, suggesting deliberate design by God.

Performing tasks the cool bionic way, even though it mimicked having two hands, wasnt obviously better than doing things my way, sometimes with the help of my legs and feet.

By the mid-1700s, with the Industrial Revolution in the global north, a more mechanistic view of the world began to emerge, and the line between living things and machines began to blur. In her 2003 article Eighteenth-Century Wetware, Jessica Riskin, professor of history at Stanford University, writes, The period between the 1730s and the 1790s was one of simulation, in which mechanicians tried earnestly to collapse the gap between animate and artificial machinery. This period saw significant changes in the design of prosthetic limbs. While mechanical prostheses of the 16th century were weighed down with iron and springs, a 1732 body-powered prosthesis used a pulley system to flex a hand made of lightweight copper. By the late 18th century, metal was being replaced with leather, parchment, and corksofter materials that mimicked the stuff of life.

The techno-optimism of the early 20th century brought about another change in prosthetic design, says Wolf Schweitzer, a forensic pathologist at the Zurich Institute of Forensic Medicine and an amputee. He owns a wide variety of contemporary prosthetic arms and has the necessary experience to test them. He notes that anatomically correct prosthetic hands have been carved and forged for the better part of 2,000 years. And yet, he says, the 20th centurys body-powered split hook is more modern, its design more willing to break the mold of the human hand.

The body powered armin terms of its symbolism(still) expresses the man-machine symbolism of an industrial society of the 1920s, writes Schweitzer in his prosthetic arm blog, when man was to function as clockwork cogwheel on production lines or in agriculture. In the original 1920s design of the Hosmer Hook, a loop inside the hook was placed just for tying shoes and another just for holding cigarettes. Those designs, Ad Spiers told me, were incredibly functional, function over form. All pieces served a specific purpose.

Schweitzer believes that as the need for manual labor decreased over the 20th century, prostheses that were high-functioning but not naturalistic were eclipsed by a new high-tech vision of the future: bionic hands. In 2006, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched Revolutionizing Prosthetics, a research initiative to develop the next generation of prosthetic arms with near-natural control. The $100 million program produced two multi-articulating prosthetic arms (one for research and another that costs over $50,000). More importantly, it influenced the creation of other similar prosthetics, establishing the bionic handas the military imagined itas the holy grail in prosthetics. Today, the multigrasp bionic hand is hegemonic, a symbol of cyborg wholeness.

And yet some prosthetic developers are pursuing a different vision. TRS, based in Boulder, Colo., is one of the few manufacturers of activity-specific prosthetic attachments, which are often more durable and more financially accessible than robotic prosthetics. These plastic and silicone attachments, which include a squishy mushroom-shaped device for push-ups, a ratcheting clamp for lifting heavy weights, and a concave fin for swimming, have helped me experience the greatest functionality I have ever gotten out of a prosthetic arm.

Such low-tech activity prostheses and body-powered prostheses perform astonishingly well, for a tiny fraction of the cost of bionic hands. They dont look or act like human hands, and they function all the better for it. According to Schweitzer, body-powered prostheses are regularly dismissed by engineers as arcane or derisively called Captain Hook. Future bionic shoulders and elbows may make a huge difference in the lives of people missing a limb up to their shoulder, assuming those devices can be made robust and affordable. But for Schweitzer and a large percentage of users dissatisfied with their myoelectric prosthesis, the prosthetic industry has yet to provide anything fundamentally better or cheaper than body-powered prostheses.

Bionic hands seek to make disabled people whole, to have us participate in a world that is culturally two-handed. But its more important that we get to live the lives we want, with access to the tools we need, than it is to make us look like everyone else. While many limb-different people have used bionic hands to interact with the world and express themselves, the centuries-long effort to perfect the bionic hand rarely centers on our lived experiences and what we want to do in our lives.

Weve been promised a breakthrough in prosthetic technology for the better part of 100 years now. Im reminded of the scientific excitement around lab-grown meat, which seems simultaneously like an explosive shift and a sign of intellectual capitulation, in which political and cultural change is passed over in favor of a technological fix. With the cast of characters in the world of prostheticsdoctors, insurance companies, engineers, prosthetists, and the militaryplaying the same roles they have for decades, its nearly impossible to produce something truly revolutionary.

In the meantime, this metaphorical race to the moon is a mission that has forgotten its original concern: helping disabled people acquire and use the tools they want. There are inexpensive, accessible, low-tech prosthetics that are available right now and that need investments in innovation to further bring down costs and improve functionality. And in the United States at least, there is a broken insurance system that needs fixing. Releasing ourselves from the bionic-hand arms race can open up the possibilities of more functional designs that are more useful and affordable, and might help us bring our prosthetic aspirations back down to earth.

This article appears in the October 2022 print issue.

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Schmickl, who now leads the Artificial Life Lab at the University of Graz in Austria, wasnt wrong. Studies in various parts of the world have since found that insect populations are declining or changing. After working in the field of swarm robotics for several yearsusing nature to inspire robotsSchmickl decided to flip his work around and design robots to help nature, a concept he calls ecosystem hacking.

Hes focusing on bees. Honeybees and other pollinators face habitat loss, pesticide exposure, and other challenges, and Schmickl believes that coming to their aid could help strengthen entire ecosystems. Already, some companies offer augmented beehives that monitor conditions inside, or even robotically tend the bees. Now Schmickl and his colleagues want to go a step further and use technology to manipulate the insects behavior.

Speaking to the swarm

Schmickls team is building prototype hives as part of a European Unionfunded project called Hiveopolis. One of the groups hives resembles a stylized tree trunk, similar to a hollow tree where honeybees might nest in nature. In an effort to use sustainable materials, that hive is made from 3D-printed clay and from fungus grown on recycled coffee grounds, Schmickl says.

The prototype hives are outfitted with sensors and cameras as well as devices that can create vibration inside the hive and adjust temperature or air flow. Such tools could ultimately direct the bees traffic patterns: Schmickls experiments have shown that vibration slows the bees down, while moving air encourages them to walk away.

Hiveopolis collaborator Tim Landgraf, a professor of artificial and collective intelligence at Freie Universitt Berlin in Germany, is working on another kind of tool for these hives: a robotic dancing bee.

When real honeybees return from foraging, they perform a distinctive waggle dance that communicates the location of the food. Other bees join in the foragers dances, and when enough bees are doing the same dance, theyll fly out to find the food. Its a sort of opinion polling process, Schmickl says.

In earlier research, Landgraf built a robot that could perform a waggle dance so convincing that other bees followed itand, at least sometimes, flew in the direction the robot suggested. Now hes getting ready to test an improved version of the waggle robot and find out whether it can guide honeybees to a food source. The robot doesnt look very bee-like to a human eye. Its body is simply a small, flexible tube with a fluttering wing. But its connected to a motor outside the hive that can steer and shimmy it across the hives dance floor.

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Ask Yegor Traiman about whether robots or humans are better at making food, and hell side with his fellow carbon-based lifeforms.

What might be super easy for humans is very difficult for robots, Traiman told The Spoon.

But this doesnt mean the CEO of food robotics startup Remy Robotics thinks humans should prepare all our food. In fact, he thinks robots should an integral part of the kitchen. The answer, Traiman explains, lies in creating a world in which the robots can succeed. In other words, we need to build kitchens around the robot rather than force-fitting a robot into human-centered kitchens.

To really reach mass market adoption and really solve the labor shortage, you need to put the robot at the center.

For Traiman, that means having culinary engineers build systems with the robots in mind from the start.

Its not about a fancy Michelin star chef, said Traiman. Its really about engineers from the culinary side which invent the new cooking methods, frameworks and techniques for the robots to make them as efficient as they can.

As for the robots, Traimain believes they need to highly flexible, a far cry from what he sees from most of todays food robotics startups.

Most of the food robot startups end up automating just a single process like flipping burgers, said Traiman. But can you gain mass market adoption with a single process automation?

According to Traiman, his company also started down that path and tried to automate high-volume processes like burger assembly and pizza cutting, but realized they needed to focus less on high-volume mechanical solutions and instead build systems with software-defined intelligence and flexibility.

We quickly realized, its a short time to market, but its not scalable. We immediately switched to more complicated deep tech based on AI, a true smart robotics application.

That flexibility allows Remy Robotics to cook a wide variety of food types, which is crucial to the bigger vision of the company. Today the company operates its own robot-powered dark kitchens in Barcelona and Paris and creates food under the companys own in-house virtual brands which is delivered through third party service providers like Deliveroo and UberEats. Longer term, however, Traiman sees his company as a B2B platform for any restaurant operator who wants to leverage automation in a scalable way to use Remy as a kitchen-as-a-service.

Even though there is hype, no one in this business has found a sustainable business model yet, said Traiman. Delivery service providers are struggling. Virtual restaurants are also kind of struggling. Without the help of disruptive technology, there is no way out and I really believe robotics can make it better, cheaper and more reliable.

You can see Remy Robotics and connect with Traimain at the Smart Kitchen Summit next week (get your ticket here). You can watch our full interview with Traiman below.

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Complimentary updates for one yearGlobal Rehabilitation Robots Market to Reach $2.2 Billion by 2027- In the changed post COVID-19 business landscape, the global market for Rehabilitation Robots estimated at US$566.5 Million in the year 2020, is projected to reach a revised size of US$2.2 Billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 21.7% over the analysis period 2020-2027. Upper Extremity, one of the segments analyzed in the report, is projected to record a 19.4% CAGR and reach US$754.2 Million by the end of the analysis period. Taking into account the ongoing post pandemic recovery, growth in the Lower Extremity segment is readjusted to a revised 21.9% CAGR for the next 7-year period.- The U.S. Market is Estimated at $219.7 Million, While China is Forecast to Grow at 23.2% CAGR- The Rehabilitation Robots market in the U.S. is estimated at US$219.7 Million in the year 2020. China, the world`s second largest economy, is forecast to reach a projected market size of US$331.1 Million by the year 2027 trailing a CAGR of 23.2% over the analysis period 2020 to 2027. Among the other noteworthy geographic markets are Japan and Canada, each forecast to grow at 17.5% and 19.2% respectively over the 2020-2027 period. Within Europe, Germany is forecast to grow at approximately 19.7% CAGR.Full-Body Exoskeletons Segment to Record 24.8% CAGR- In the global Full-Body Exoskeletons segment, USA, Canada, Japan, China and Europe will drive the 24.8% CAGR estimated for this segment. These regional markets accounting for a combined market size of US$94.7 Million in the year 2020 will reach a projected size of US$456.7 Million by the close of the analysis period. China will remain among the fastest growing in this cluster of regional markets.

Select Competitors (Total 100 Featured)Bionik Laboratories Corp.BioXtremeCorindus, Inc.CYBERDYNE Inc.Ekso Bionics Holdings Inc.Hocoma AGParker Hannifin Corp.Rehab-Robotics Company LimitedReWalk Robotics Ltd.Rex Bionics Ltd.Siemens AGTyromotion GmbH

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I. METHODOLOGY

II. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1. MARKET OVERVIEWRehabilitation Robots - Global Key Competitors PercentageMarket Share in 2022 (E)Competitive Market Presence - Strong/Active/Niche/Trivial forPlayers Worldwide in 2022 (E)Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic and a Looming Global RecessionWeak Global Economic Environment & Negative Tide in GDPForecasts Discourage the MarketWorld Economic Growth Projections (Real GDP, Annual % Change)for 2019, 2020 & 2021Robotics Play an Increasingly Important Role in Medical SectorAn Introduction to Rehabilitation RobotsFunctional Roles of Rehabilitation RobotsRehabilitation Robotics: Historical BackgroundGlobal Market Prospects & OutlookRobotics Stride Ahead to Restore Mobility and SupplementPhysiotherapist Efforts in Stroke PatientsDeveloped Regions Lead Market, Developing Economies toSpearhead Future GrowthCompetitionWorld BrandsRecent Market Activity

2. FOCUS ON SELECT PLAYERS

3. MARKET TRENDS & DRIVERSRising Prominence of Robotics Technology in PatientRehabilitation and TherapyAging Population with Age-related Conditions Drive Demand forRehabilitation RobotsGlobal Aging Population Statistics for the 65+ Age Group inMillion by Geographic Region for the Years 2019, 2025, 2035and 2050Elderly Population (65+ Years) as a % of Total Population byDeveloped, Less Developed and Least Developed Regions: 2019 &2030Life Expectancy at Birth in Years of People in Select Countriesfor 2020EIncreasing Incidence of Neurological & MusculoskeletalDisorders and Other Chronic Medical Conditions to PropelMarket GrowthGlobal Annual Medical Cost of CVD in US$ Billion: 2010, 2015,2020, 2025 and 2030Global Cancer Incidence: Number of New Cancer Cases in Millionfor the Years 2018, 2020, 2025, 2030, 2035 and 2040World Diabetes and Population Statistics (2019, 2030 & 2045)Rising Significance of Rehabilitation Robots for PhysicalTherapy of Stroke SurvivorsA Glance at Select Population Stroke Rehabilitation RobotsOsteoarthritis & Osteoporosis: Major Health ConditionsAffecting Mobility in the Elderly to Drive Market GrowthGlobal Osteoporosis Prevalence: Number of People withOsteoporosis in Millions by Select Country/Region for 2012 and2022P% of Women Affected by OsteoporosisRising Incidence of Physical Disabilities: A Grim RealityDriving Significance of Rehabilitation RobotsPercentage of Population with Disabilities by Age GroupSmarter Rehabilitation through Machine Learning and RoboticsEldercare-Assistive Robots: Enabling Elderly and Disabled toLive IndependentlyTherapeutic Rehabilitation Robots Market: Providing Assistanceto Patients with Motor DisordersExoskeleton Robots: Enabling Medical RehabilitationShortage of Home Care Workers and Rising Care Costs forDisabled and Elderly Turn Focus onto Rehabilitation RobotsAnnual Cost of Full-Time Home Health Aide (in $) in the US for2004-2019Long-term Care Workers in the US: Percentage Breakdown ofWorkforce by Type for 2020EShift towards Home Healthcare Augurs Well for the MarketRehabilitation Robots for Treatment of Post-CNS SensorimotorDeficits: A Neurophysiological PerspectiveTechnology Advancements in Rehabilitation Robots to BoostMarket ProspectsHandicap Assistance Robots: A Key OpportunityRehabilitation Robots and Virtual Reality to Enhance PhysicalTherapySelect Innovative Technologies and Devices in RoboticRehabilitationCurrent Areas of Research and DevicesConsistent Rise in Healthcare Spending Worldwide to SupportMarket GrowthWorld Healthcare Expenditure (In US$ Trillion) for the Yearsfor 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023Healthcare Expenditure as a % of GDP by Region for 2019Challenges Confronting Rehabilitation Robots Market

4. GLOBAL MARKET PERSPECTIVETable 1: World Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by Geographic Region - USA, Canada,Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of World Markets -Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years2020 through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 2: World 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robots byGeographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forUSA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest ofWorld Markets for Years 2021 & 2027

Table 3: World Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis for UpperExtremity by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China,Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of World Markets - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through2027 and % CAGR

Table 4: World 7-Year Perspective for Upper Extremity byGeographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forUSA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest ofWorld for Years 2021 & 2027

Table 5: World Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis for LowerExtremity by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China,Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of World Markets - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through2027 and % CAGR

Table 6: World 7-Year Perspective for Lower Extremity byGeographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forUSA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest ofWorld for Years 2021 & 2027

Table 7: World Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forFull-Body Exoskeletons by Geographic Region - USA, Canada,Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of World Markets -Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years2020 through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 8: World 7-Year Perspective for Full-Body Exoskeletons byGeographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forUSA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest ofWorld for Years 2021 & 2027

Table 9: World Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forTherapeutic by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China,Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of World Markets - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through2027 and % CAGR

Table 10: World 7-Year Perspective for Therapeutic byGeographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forUSA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest ofWorld for Years 2021 & 2027

Table 11: World Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Centers by Geographic Region - USA, Canada,Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of World Markets -Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years2020 through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 12: World 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Centersby Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forUSA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest ofWorld for Years 2021 & 2027

Table 13: World Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forHospitals by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China,Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of World Markets - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through2027 and % CAGR

Table 14: World 7-Year Perspective for Hospitals by GeographicRegion - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada,Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of World for Years2021 & 2027

Table 15: World Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forOther End-Uses by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan,China, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of World Markets -Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years2020 through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 16: World 7-Year Perspective for Other End-Uses byGeographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forUSA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest ofWorld for Years 2021 & 2027

III. MARKET ANALYSIS

UNITED STATESRehabilitation Robots Market Presence - Strong/Active/Niche/Trivial - Key Competitors in the United States for 2022 (E)Table 17: USA Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by Product - Upper Extremity, LowerExtremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons and Therapeutic - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 18: USA 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robots byProduct - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for UpperExtremity, Lower Extremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons andTherapeutic for the Years 2021 & 2027

Table 19: USA Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by End-Use - Rehabilitation Centers,Hospitals and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of AnnualSales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 20: USA 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robots byEnd-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forRehabilitation Centers, Hospitals and Other End-Uses for theYears 2021 & 2027

CANADATable 21: Canada Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by Product - Upper Extremity, LowerExtremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons and Therapeutic - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 22: Canada 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robotsby Product - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for UpperExtremity, Lower Extremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons andTherapeutic for the Years 2021 & 2027

Table 23: Canada Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by End-Use - Rehabilitation Centers,Hospitals and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of AnnualSales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 24: Canada 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robotsby End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forRehabilitation Centers, Hospitals and Other End-Uses for theYears 2021 & 2027

JAPANRehabilitation Robots Market Presence - Strong/Active/Niche/Trivial - Key Competitors in Japan for 2022 (E)Table 25: Japan Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by Product - Upper Extremity, LowerExtremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons and Therapeutic - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 26: Japan 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robots byProduct - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for UpperExtremity, Lower Extremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons andTherapeutic for the Years 2021 & 2027

Table 27: Japan Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by End-Use - Rehabilitation Centers,Hospitals and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of AnnualSales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 28: Japan 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robots byEnd-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forRehabilitation Centers, Hospitals and Other End-Uses for theYears 2021 & 2027

CHINARehabilitation Robots Market Presence - Strong/Active/Niche/Trivial - Key Competitors in China for 2022 (E)Table 29: China Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by Product - Upper Extremity, LowerExtremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons and Therapeutic - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 30: China 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robots byProduct - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for UpperExtremity, Lower Extremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons andTherapeutic for the Years 2021 & 2027

Table 31: China Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by End-Use - Rehabilitation Centers,Hospitals and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of AnnualSales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 32: China 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robots byEnd-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forRehabilitation Centers, Hospitals and Other End-Uses for theYears 2021 & 2027

EUROPERehabilitation Robots Market Presence - Strong/Active/Niche/Trivial - Key Competitors in Europe for 2022 (E)Table 33: Europe Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by Geographic Region - France, Germany,Italy, UK and Rest of Europe Markets - Independent Analysis ofAnnual Sales in US$ Thousand for Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 34: Europe 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robotsby Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forFrance, Germany, Italy, UK and Rest of Europe Markets for Years2021 & 2027

Table 35: Europe Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by Product - Upper Extremity, LowerExtremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons and Therapeutic - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 36: Europe 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robotsby Product - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for UpperExtremity, Lower Extremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons andTherapeutic for the Years 2021 & 2027

Table 37: Europe Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by End-Use - Rehabilitation Centers,Hospitals and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of AnnualSales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 38: Europe 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robotsby End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forRehabilitation Centers, Hospitals and Other End-Uses for theYears 2021 & 2027

FRANCERehabilitation Robots Market Presence - Strong/Active/Niche/Trivial - Key Competitors in France for 2022 (E)Table 39: France Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by Product - Upper Extremity, LowerExtremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons and Therapeutic - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 40: France 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robotsby Product - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for UpperExtremity, Lower Extremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons andTherapeutic for the Years 2021 & 2027

Table 41: France Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by End-Use - Rehabilitation Centers,Hospitals and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of AnnualSales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 42: France 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robotsby End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forRehabilitation Centers, Hospitals and Other End-Uses for theYears 2021 & 2027

GERMANYRehabilitation Robots Market Presence - Strong/Active/Niche/Trivial - Key Competitors in Germany for 2022 (E)Table 43: Germany Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by Product - Upper Extremity, LowerExtremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons and Therapeutic - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 44: Germany 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robotsby Product - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for UpperExtremity, Lower Extremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons andTherapeutic for the Years 2021 & 2027

Table 45: Germany Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by End-Use - Rehabilitation Centers,Hospitals and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of AnnualSales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 46: Germany 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robotsby End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forRehabilitation Centers, Hospitals and Other End-Uses for theYears 2021 & 2027

ITALYTable 47: Italy Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by Product - Upper Extremity, LowerExtremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons and Therapeutic - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 48: Italy 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robots byProduct - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for UpperExtremity, Lower Extremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons andTherapeutic for the Years 2021 & 2027

Table 49: Italy Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by End-Use - Rehabilitation Centers,Hospitals and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of AnnualSales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 50: Italy 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robots byEnd-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forRehabilitation Centers, Hospitals and Other End-Uses for theYears 2021 & 2027

UNITED KINGDOMRehabilitation Robots Market Presence - Strong/Active/Niche/Trivial - Key Competitors in the United Kingdom for 2022 (E)Table 51: UK Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by Product - Upper Extremity, LowerExtremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons and Therapeutic - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 52: UK 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robots byProduct - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for UpperExtremity, Lower Extremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons andTherapeutic for the Years 2021 & 2027

Table 53: UK Recent Past, Current & Future Analysis forRehabilitation Robots by End-Use - Rehabilitation Centers,Hospitals and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of AnnualSales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 54: UK 7-Year Perspective for Rehabilitation Robots byEnd-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forRehabilitation Centers, Hospitals and Other End-Uses for theYears 2021 & 2027

REST OF EUROPETable 55: Rest of Europe Recent Past, Current & Future Analysisfor Rehabilitation Robots by Product - Upper Extremity, LowerExtremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons and Therapeutic - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 56: Rest of Europe 7-Year Perspective for RehabilitationRobots by Product - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forUpper Extremity, Lower Extremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons andTherapeutic for the Years 2021 & 2027

Table 57: Rest of Europe Recent Past, Current & Future Analysisfor Rehabilitation Robots by End-Use - Rehabilitation Centers,Hospitals and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of AnnualSales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 58: Rest of Europe 7-Year Perspective for RehabilitationRobots by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forRehabilitation Centers, Hospitals and Other End-Uses for theYears 2021 & 2027

ASIA-PACIFICRehabilitation Robots Market Presence - Strong/Active/Niche/Trivial - Key Competitors in Asia-Pacific for 2022 (E)Table 59: Asia-Pacific Recent Past, Current & Future Analysisfor Rehabilitation Robots by Product - Upper Extremity, LowerExtremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons and Therapeutic - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 60: Asia-Pacific 7-Year Perspective for RehabilitationRobots by Product - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forUpper Extremity, Lower Extremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons andTherapeutic for the Years 2021 & 2027

Table 61: Asia-Pacific Recent Past, Current & Future Analysisfor Rehabilitation Robots by End-Use - Rehabilitation Centers,Hospitals and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of AnnualSales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 62: Asia-Pacific 7-Year Perspective for RehabilitationRobots by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forRehabilitation Centers, Hospitals and Other End-Uses for theYears 2021 & 2027

REST OF WORLDTable 63: Rest of World Recent Past, Current & Future Analysisfor Rehabilitation Robots by Product - Upper Extremity, LowerExtremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons and Therapeutic - IndependentAnalysis of Annual Sales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020through 2027 and % CAGR

Table 64: Rest of World 7-Year Perspective for RehabilitationRobots by Product - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forUpper Extremity, Lower Extremity, Full-Body Exoskeletons andTherapeutic for the Years 2021 & 2027

Table 65: Rest of World Recent Past, Current & Future Analysisfor Rehabilitation Robots by End-Use - Rehabilitation Centers,Hospitals and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of AnnualSales in US$ Thousand for the Years 2020 through 2027 and %CAGR

Table 66: Rest of World 7-Year Perspective for RehabilitationRobots by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales forRehabilitation Centers, Hospitals and Other End-Uses for theYears 2021 & 2027

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Danielle Boyer realized at age 10 that the kids in her Ojibwe community werent learning about their own Indigenous culture and history.

Oftentimes, schools only teach about colonial settlers' encounters with Native Americans instead of focusing on their culture and history. So Boyer asked her mother to let her teach a class to kindergartners. As she grew older, the now 21-year-old began building robots that spoke Native languages and shared them with other indigenous youth.

Today, Boyer is the founder of The STEAM Connection, a nonprofit that has built and shared more than 8,000 wearable robots. Boyer says robots have the capability to teach a wide range of tech skills, from electrical engineering to team building. Theyre an all-encompassing tool that kind of gives us back a lot of power, Boyer says. And, they help prevent indigenous languages from dying out if they arent taught culturally.

But its not cheap, and learning about them is even less accessible. As a kid, Boyer joined a robotics team after developing an interest in robots. Despite the initial excitement to participate and the expensive cost to join Boyer was bullied the entire time. It was clear the other students didnt want her there, she says. She joined another team but faced the same kind of harassment.

I created my organization because every student deserves to have a safe space to learn and to be themselves, she says. And that's why I'm doing the work that I do now.

Half the size of a human head, the robots can sit on Boyers shoulder. They look like minions unintentional, Boyer says but students can customize them and include different elements from their culture such as ribbon skirts, hats, beads or earrings. Boyer decorated her robot with Ojibwe woodland flowers and other elements representing her community.

Boyer wants her students to have the skills they need to create things for the community, whether its robots or anything else, she says. One of Boyers students once said that she was the first Native person theyd seen in robotics and she inspired them to get into it.

That really made me emotional and inspired to see the power that us being ourselves has and being authentic to ourselves, to our community, Boyer says. I just think that's such a beautiful thing.

Ashley Locke produced and edited this interview for broadcast with Catherine Welch. Jeannette Muhammad adapted it for the web.

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How robots can teach Native American children the power of 'us being ourselves' - WBUR News