NSC session covers use of robotics in rehabilitation.
The Foundation will host a session rifled "PT Interventions
with Robotics robotics, science and technology of general purpose, programmable machine systems. Contrary to the popular fiction image of robots as ambulatory machines of human appearance capable of performing almost any task, most robotic systems are anchored to fixed positions " at NSC NSC
abbr.
National Security Council
Noun 1. NSC - a committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security; supervises the Central Intelligence Agency . The session will be held on Saturday,
October 27, from 5:15 PM--6:30 PM, and again from 6:45 PM--8 PM. During
the session, Carolynn Patten, PT, PhD, and Loren McCarthy, PT, will
present current and evolving robotic therapies and contemporary research
evidence acquired using robotic locomotor lo·co·mo·tor or lo·co·mo·tive
adj.
Of or relating to movement from one place to another.
locomotor
of or pertaining to locomotion. training. The session is
sponsored by Hocoma Inc, a Foundation Partner in Research.
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