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 =Design for Limited Hand Movement. =

Design for limited hand movement is where a company designs products purposely for people/ clients who have limited hand movement due to illness or elderlyness.

They have designed these products to make it easy for people who suffer from these disabilities or elderlyness to cope in normal life situations and to not need any assistance. When designing these products they have to think about the forces involved such as the pulling, pushing and turning strength needed for a situation such as opening a jar.

These products are mainly designed for people who have arthritis and tendonitis or are elderly where they have lost strength in their arms or hands.

Arthritis - Damage to joints of the body and is the leading cause of disability for people older than 55. Tendonitis - Linked to arthritis and is the inflammation of a tendon within the body, also linked to disability.

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AMD i’s Sensor Switches are designed to meet the needs of people with limited movement capabilities, limited strength or limited endurance. These switches are an ideal choice for the Motor Neurone Disease ( ALS ) population. They include proximity sensors with varying ranges of sensitivity and beam switches of varying size and means of activation. The special Fibre-Optic Sensor is customized to detect purposeful eye-blinks.

The Piezo Sensor detects the slightest of muscle movements.

[|Sweden invests in robots for better car]e
**by: Stockholm Business Region** R2-D2, the know-it-all robot that serves humans in the Star Wars films, is hardly the answer. The next generation of robots need to support human needs such as care, thoughtfulness and companionship. The robot Bestic is showing the way forward.

The development of Bestic is truly user-driven; the initiator, Sten Hemmingsson (right), suffers from limited mobility due to polio. Ann-Louise Norén, development manager, expects the robot to be out on the market soon. // Photo: Alice Öberg //

//He explains that healthcare robots or mechanized help resources with built-in intelligence can be used in treatments that require high-level precision, or in rehabilitation or assistance. This also involves modern robots that are able to compensate in the event of disabilities, as the Robot Valley project Bestic does. It involves robots for people who, due to functional disabilities, are unable to feed themselves. Bestic handles the feeding, and the user does not need to be fed by anyone else at the table. Everyone eats using their own machine, regardless of whether their arms, hands or fingers function.//  In Europe, Japan and the United States, there are a couple of million people with diagnoses that create a need for Bestic. This involves people with MS, ALS, Parkinson’s and other diseases that limit movement abilities. In Sweden alone, there are almost 70,000 people with these conditions. Norén’s modest estimate is that a couple of thousand of these want to use Bestic. She believes that a couple of hundred users can be added every year. Hagman assesses the market for robots within health and medical care to be enormous Bestic's job is to lift food from the plate to the mouth, making people with limited hand or arm function less reliant on assistance. Photo: Alice Öberg //

Bestic's job is to lift food from the plate to the mouth, making people with limited hand or arm function less reliant on assistance. Photo: Alice Öberg // ”All forces must work together to create more humanitarian medical and general care,” he says. “By merging technical and physiological competence, Robot Valley wants to develop new, innovative, Swedish export products that make people’s everyday lives simpler. First and foremost it’s about meeting the future.”