Rehabilitation is facing a growing problem of an aging population combined with a shortage of therapists. More and more people are experiencing neurological injuries, but with fewer therapists, limited insurance reimbursements, and increasing evidence that even more therapy is needed for each patient, a modern solution is sorely needed.

Robotic rehabilitation has been generating excitement from medicine, neuroscience, and engineering sectors because of the potential to deliver better rehabilitation outcomes and alleviate therapeutic resource shortages. Many studies have shown that robotic rehabilitation produces better or, at least, equivalent outcomes compared to standard therapy, offering a number of benefits:

• Robotic rehabilitation can provide patients with longer therapeutic time, which is one of the main problems in the field, alleviating the issues of therapist shortages and limited insurance reimbursement.
• Robotic automation can lead to an efficient operation of rehabilitation settings by freeing up the major portion of therapists’ labor and allowing them to engage with multiple patients simultaneously.
• Robotic rehabilitation has potential to promote better recovery by providing new types of training based on neuroscientific principles.
• Robotic settings can effectively motivate patients with gaming-like environments aligned with visual, haptic, and auditory feedback.
• Robotic devices can accurately gather data to give therapists information about the patient’s recovery.