The ALLADIN Diagnostic Device: An Innovative Platform for Assessing Post-Stroke Functional Recovery

Stefano Mazzoleni1, Jo Van Vaerenbergh2, Andras Toth3, Marko Munih4, Eugenio Guglielmelli5, Paolo Dario1 1 ARTS Lab, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy 2Arteveldehogeschool, Gent, Belgium 3 Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary 4 Laboratory of Robotics and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia 5 Laboratory of Biomedical Robotics & EMC, Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome, Italy

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