Achievements


Submission of national/international research projects
   International Project within the competition PNRR/2022/C9/MCID/I8./Development of a program to attract highly specialized human resources from abroad in research, development and innovation activities, with the title "New smart and adaptive robotics solutions for personalized minimally invasive surgery in cancer treatment - ATHENA", CF 116/15.11.2022, financing contract no. 760072/23.05.2023 coordinated by the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca.

   International Project within the competition PNRR/2022/C9/MCID/I8./Development of a program to attract highly specialized human resources from abroad in research, development and innovation activities, with the title "New frontiers in adaptive modular robotics for patient-centered medical rehabilitation – ASKLEPIOS", CF 121/15.11.2022, financing contract no. 760071/23.05.2023, coordinated by the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca.

    National Project within the competition "Competitiveness Operational Program 2014 - 2020, Axis 1 - Research, technological development and innovation (CDI) in support of economic competitiveness and business development" with the title: "Increasing the quality of life of patients through intelligent telerobotic systems for personalized treatment of neuromotor deficit - APOLLO", Funding number: No. 9/1.2.1 PTI ap. 2/23.02.2023



Workshop
On June 4, 2024, a workshop titled "Innovative Approaches Regarding Robotic Assisted Rehabilitation of Lower Limbs" was organized. The workshop was led by Prof. Dr. Ing. Vaida Calin and Associate Lecturer Dr. Nicoleta Tohanean. During the workshop, a series of presentations were given on the main topic of lower limb rehabilitation using robotic systems. Additionally, the RAISE robotic system for lower limb rehabilitation in bedridden patients was presented at the event.

Prizes obtained at various fairs

   During the period of April 17-19, 2024, PhD student Horsia Alin participated in "The International Symposium on Robotics & Mechatronics-ISRM 2024" in Djerba, Tunisia, where he presented the paper titled "Design Improvement of a Parallel Robot for Lower Limb Rehabilitation." The authors of the paper are Doina Pisla, Paul Tucan, Nicoleta Tohanean, Iosif Birlescu, Cristian Abrudan, Alin Horsia, Bogdan Gherman, Adrian Pisla, Jose Machado, and Calin Vaida. The paper received the Bronze Medal for the presented work.

   On June 24, 2022, the Hope2Walk team participated in the 26th Edition of the International Invention Fair, held in Iasi, Romania, during which the "Parallel Robot for the Recovery of the Lower Limb Mobility" Invention obtained the Gold Medal.

   On June 24, 2022, the Hope2Walk team participated in the 26th Edition of the International Invention Fair, held in Iași, Romania, during which the "Parallel Robot for the Motor Rehabilitation of the Lower Limb" Invention obtained the Gold Medal.

   On August 27, 2022, the Hope2Walk team participated in the 7th Annual Edition of the International Inventions and Innovations Competition in Toronto, Canada (ICAN 2022) in which the invention entitled "Parallel Robot for the Recovery of Lower Limb Mobility" obtained the Gold Medal.

   On September 28-29, 2022, he participated in the IITE Inventions Exhibition in London, Great Britain, where the Invention "Parallel Robot for the Recovery of Lower Limb Mobility" obtained the Medal of Gold.

   During October 8-10, the Hope2Walk team participated in the 7th edition of the "Traian Vuia" International Exhibition of Inventions and Innovations in Timișoara, where the invention "Parallel robot for the medical recovery of their lower limbs" obtained Special Salon Award. br
    Between October 8-10, 2022, the Hope2Walk team participated in the 7th edition of the "Traian Vuia" International Exhibition of Inventions and Innovations in Timișoara, where the invention "Parallel robot for the recovery of mobility of the lower limb" obtained Grand Prize of the Salon.

    Between October 8-10, the Hope2Walk team participated in the 7th edition of the "Traian Vuia" International Exhibition of Inventions and Innovations in Timișoara, where the invention "Parallel robot for the medical recovery of their lower limbs" obtained Gold Medal.

   During October 8-10, the UTCN team participated in the 7th edition of the "Traian Vuia" International Exhibition of Inventions and Innovations in Timișoara, where the invention "Parallel robot for the recovery of mobility of the lower limb" obtained Gold Medal.

    During October 26-28, 2022, the Hope2Walk team participated in the 20th Edition of the International Salon of Scientific Research, Innovation and Invention, Cluj-Napoca PROINVENT, where the invention "Parallel Robot for the recovery of mobility of the lower limb" obtained Diploma of Excellence and Gold Medal.

   During October 26-28, 2022, the Hope2Walk team participated in the 20th Edition of the International Salon of Scientific Research, Innovation and Invention, Cluj-Napoca PROINVENT, where the invention "Parallel Robot for the medical recovery of the lower limbs” obtained the Diploma of Excellence and the Gold Medal.

   During September 14-16, 2023, members of the project implementation team participated in the "4th International Exhibition INVENTCOR", which took place in Deva Romania, and where it was obtained The Special Award from the "Satit Chula Innovation Society" from Thailand for the invention "Innovative parallel robot for medical rehabilitation of the lower limb" with Pisla D., Birlescu I as authors. , Vaida C., Gherman B., Tucan P. and Plitea N. .

   During September 14-16, 2023, members of the project implementation team participated in the "4th International Exhibition INVENTCOR", which took place in Deva Romania, and where it was obtained Special Award from the "Polytechnic University of Timișoara" for the invention "Innovative parallel robot for medical rehabilitation of the lower limb" with authors Pisla D., Birlescu I., Vaida C., Gherman B., Tucan P. and Plitea N.