International Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Open Access

Abstract

The Impact of New Technologies on Rehabilitation Team: Aria Experience

Laura Tosi

The advent of robots and artificial intelligences has the power to be revolutionary and, according to some, to undermine the very concept of work and human necessity in the production process or in the professions.

This is the report of 10 years of rehabilitation experience with robotic systems and new technologies for a rehabilitation team accustomed to traditional treatment.

This report does not concern the reliability of rehabilitation with robotics, but the impact that this new way of rehabilitation has had on a rehabilitation team. In the described experience it is evident that a metamorphosis of the mentality and the way of working of all the operators has taken place.

In a mixed environment it is the person and his unique value that establishes and hierarchizes the priorities: the robot cooperates with the man and not the man who assists the machine.