AAATE 2007, 9th European Conference for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe

• Presentation
• General Information
• Scientific Information
• Hosts
  • Fatronik
  • Ingema
  • VicomTech
  • AAATE
• Committees
• Precongress
• Programme
• Exhibition
• Sponsors
• The city, San Sebastian
• Travel & Accommodation

FATRONIK

Fatronik is a private research centre, with market orientation, that has an ambitious goal: to achieve the highest economic impact, through innovation and technological development. Under this premise, Fatronik contributes to the economic and social development of the region through technology transfer to companies and starting new business initiatives.

Located in the Technology Park of San Sebastian (Spain), Fatronik organizes its research activities in two divisions, Health Care and Industrial Systems, and focuses its specialization on robotics, ICT, and manufacturing and automation technologies.

In the Health Division, Fatronik works on the development of products and services for individuals. Products and services for maximising personal autonomy, allowing people feeling safer, helping them to age with quality, accelerating their rehabilitation processes and compensating their physical disabilities, reducing the effects of disability through ageing... in short, improving the quality of life.

The goal of Fatronik’s Health Division is to place technology at the service of people, specialising in two specific areas:

• Ageing, with an activity which could be called "Gerontotechnology"; the merging of technology and ageing, which, in essence, gives rise to the application of technology to improve and maintain the quality of life of the elderly.
• Disability, where, from the perspective of "Biomedical Engineering", we deal with assessment, rehabilitation and compensation of motor and cognitive disabilities.

Some of the projects Fatronik’s Health Division is working on:

• A wearable fall detection and activity monitoring system
• Developments based on mobile devices for the promotion of personal autonomy
• Assistive robot for the elderly
• Exoskeleton for people with muscular weakness in lower limbs
• Control device for uni-dimensional, two-dimensional or three-dimensional equipment for the assistance of people with disabilities
• Prosthesis and orthesis monitoring in order to optimise the adjustment process in patients