Baskin Engineering in the news: Robotic exoskeleton and the future of medicine

Jacob Rosen

Written By Richard Hughey
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

The July issue of Popular Science magazine features professor Jacob Rosen's rehabilitation exoskeleton as part of a special section on the future of medicine.

Computer engineer Rosen invented, designed, and built the robotic arms to assist in physical thearapy for stroke survivors. 

Professor Rosen is computer engineer's newest professor and has an interdisciplinary background in robotics and control, mechanical engineering, and bioengineering.  His work is part of the  undergraduate bioengineering program, and Professor Rosen is expanding the department's undergraduate and graduate offerings in robotics as well as in assistive and rehabiliative technology.  His bionics laboratory is also pursuing a lower limb exoskeleton and surgical robots.

Professor Rosen has previously been featured an interview and video with UC's Science Today

The Department of Computer Engineering of UCSC's Jack Baskin School of Engineering programs in research and teaching emphasize interdisciplinary system design. The department is focussed on four interconnected areas of system design: Networks; Robotics and Control; Computer System Design; and Sensing and Interaction. The department, founded in 1984, offers B.S., M.S., and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering, a part-time M.S. program in Silicon Valley, and jointly offers a B.S. in Bioengineering.