Usability of a SEA - based upper - limb rehabilitation device
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This contribution aims at presenting the first clinical evaluation trials of a Series-Elastic-Actuator based exoskeleton for post-stroke elbow rehabilitation, NEUROExos, from the BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna.
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