Under this collaboration plan, Wistron Medical will provide smart exoskeleton medical equipment while National Taiwan University's Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation will conduct clinical trials in order to utilize user experience feedback to create applications featuring synergy between research and practical applications.

Wistron Medical pointed out that “smart powered lower limb exoskeleton robots” have the advantages of being easily operated, light weight, and low-cost. Their operating principle is to utilize motion sensors to monitor changes in the motions of users' hips and knees and then Artificial Intelligence to analyze and then send messages to the server to use motors and reduce speed in order to output precise power assistance to aid users in the completion of movements.

Chairman of Wistron Medical Tech Holding Company, Simon Lin, stated that medical treatment, technology and startups must be integrated in order reach the objectives of being truly practical and commercial. With the assistance of National Taiwan University's medical institutions, in addition to integrating clinical testing with the industry, in the future they will be able to develop improved second and third-generation exoskeleton robots.

This collaborative research plan will integrate the National Taiwan University Hospital's rehabilitation medical team's clinical testing of stroke patients with discrepancies between experimental and traditional rehabilitation therapy. They also anticipate that the effects of improving rehabilitation training and reducing burdens on accompanying physicians and physical therapists in patients' rehabilitation can be achieved through the assistance of lower extremity exoskeleton robots.

(TR/ Phil Sweeney)