Rehab Robotics Workshop: Clinical & Community Practice

Heriot-Watt University's National Robotarium hosts a one-day workshop on rehabilitation robotics as it is actually used in clinical and community settings. The framing is deliberately applied rather than academic: devices that have reached patients, what clinicians need from them, and where the research and the practice diverge. The Robotarium is the UK's largest centre for robotics and autonomous systems, and the session puts clinicians and roboticists in the same room — a combination that is rarer than it should be, since most robotics events keep the engineering and the care side on separate programmes. Free, from 09:30 at the Robotarium on the Heriot-Watt campus. Why go: the gap between a working rehab robot and one a physiotherapist will actually use is the whole problem in this field, and this is the Edinburgh room where both sides of it are present. Best for robotics and medtech engineers, clinicians, and founders building assistive or rehabilitation hardware.