Robot Emma Massages Better Than Trained Professionals
Robot Emma Massages – A robot called Emma, an acronym for Expert Manipulative Massage Automation, reportedly gives a better massage that a professional trained to do such thing.
In a report by Mirror, the Robot Emma massages using 3D technology and sensors to measure the client’s stiffness and the response as well. The custom-made 3D-printed massage tip on its robotic arm is expected to give a “high-quality therapy”.
After the robot used diagnostic functions to the patient, the report is then sent to be analyzed and the recovery of the patient can be monitored for a long period of time.
Emma has been tested to give treatment to 50 patients last week who were complaining about their lower back pain, shoulders, stiff neck, and tennis elbows.
Albert Zhang, a graduate of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore created Emma because of his desire to solve some of the challenges being faced by sports therapy and pain management clinics.s
Zhang said that Emma was designed to automatically treat patients prescribed by a physiotherapist or Chinese physician. According to him, Emma would be the first robot in the market functioning for both sports therapists and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) physicians.
“Our aim is not to replace the therapists who are skilled in sports massage and acupoint therapy, but to improve productivity by enabling one therapist to treat multiple patients with the help of our robots,” Zhang said.
Emma is made up of a single, 6-axis robotic arm that can do highly articulated movements. It also has a 3D-stereoscopic camera for vision, together with a custom, fully rotatable 3D-printed massage tip.
Safety features are also built-in on Emma.
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