"Future Night" Cheng Hong, Director of the Robotics Research Center of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China: Let new technologies change people's lifestyles
2024-08-28
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Sichuan News Network - First Screen News Reporter Xia Wanlin Liu WenjunHelping paraplegic patients “stand up and walk well” has always been the goal of Cheng Hong, director of the Engineering Research Center of Human-Machine Intelligence Technology and Systems of the Ministry of Education and director of the Robotics Research Center of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.
At the "Future Night - Let the Light of Technology Illuminate Internet Civilization" event held on August 27, Cheng Hong shared the story of his team and Mianyang policewoman Huang Man. In 2018, Professor Cheng Hong's team met Officer Huang Man, who won the First Class Medal of Merit from the Ministry of Public Security. Due to high paraplegia, she has been completely unconscious below the neck for 12 years. Faced with such a brave but disease-stricken soldier, Professor Cheng Hong's team decided to rise to the challenge and try to apply EEG and EMG fusion technology to exoskeleton robots in order to help Huang Man stand up again.Cheng Hong said in an interview with reporters that the use of exoskeleton robots is manifested in two aspects. One is for people who need compensation for rehabilitation, and the machine leads the joint movement of the person; the other is that the machine moves with the movement of normal people. The equipment used by Huang Man can assist her to walk according to the normal human bionic gait, conduct rehabilitation training, and help her go up and down stairs normally. Through a helmet, Huang Man's brain nerve signals can be detected, and the signals will be transmitted to the exoskeleton robot. The exoskeleton robot will act according to the patient's thoughts, so as to achieve standing and walking.The development of this technology is extremely difficult, and the success rate is almost zero, but the members of Professor Cheng Hong's team chose the challenge without hesitation. "After countless experiments and improvements, our team finally successfully developed an exoskeleton system suitable for Huang Man to use." Cheng Hong said that when Huang Man stood up again after 12 years and took one step after another, everyone at the scene was moved by this shocking scene, with tears and smiles intertwined."We need to let new technologies change people's lifestyles and thinking patterns. New technologies will bring us a better life." So far, the "exoskeleton robot" developed by Cheng Hong's team has been used in hundreds of hospitals. Cheng Hong hopes that in the future, the "exoskeleton robot" can be applied to more clinical treatment scenarios, and even help disabled elderly people, truly realizing "human-machine collaboration."
