A student at Gomel College of Engineering invented a robot glove that helps patients restore fine motor skills. Rehabilitation does not require physical effort, it can be done at home.

Another advantage of development is that it is hundreds of times cheaper than its foreign counterparts.

(00.00-00.06) My name is Maxim, I’m 21 years old, and I’m working as a lead programmer in one Belarusian company.
(00.06-00.10) I was 18 years old, when I invented the glove.
(00.11-00.13) I have studied and didn’t have a job.
(00.14-00.17) It was just my own elaboration, with which I took part in competitions.
(00.18-00.26) I got inspiration from my treatment in Gomel cardio dispensary, where I learned about a stroke and how expensive and difficult rehab was.
(00.27-00.35) Stroke is the most likely affect to the hands, that is a man can’t interact with outside world and take care of himself.
(00.36-00.50) Working principle is that the main method of rehabilitation after strokes was mechanotherapy and the glove is the most portable version in which you can put this principle.
(00.51-01.05)The main inspiration in creating the glove was the books on mechanotherapy, which currently existed and technologies in appliances that were available for sale and used in rehabilitation at that time.
(01.06-01.08) Their principle was reduced and added to the glove.
(01.09-01.01.15) Those appliances, where the patient goes to rehab, were stationary and massive.
(01.16—01.21) At that moment, the analogue existed, was made in Israel and cost more than €4,000. (01.22-01.27) The principal amount of development and its components lies in purchasing the components.
(01.28-01.31) That’s all you need. So, the sum of the components is about 25 dollars.
(01.32-01.37) The main differences are that the Israeli system required a permanent connection to the computer by wire.
(01.38-01.40) My system doesn’t need any connection.
(01.41-01.49) All the process of creation was held with Belarusian medical workers who have degrees in rehabilitation and neurosurgery.
(01.50-01.54) In the process there were no communication with other countries exactly.
(01.55-02.04). But when the device was ready, I heard a lot of glorious words at different forums about this system.
(02.05-02.12) At the moment the project is frozen, there’s no works on it, it’s finished.
(02.13-02.19) Only testing and the final patent in plans.
(02.20-02.33) I took a participation with the glove in a great number of international forums, some of the largest - world youth festivals in Sochi in 2017, various meetings of deputies in Moscow, meetings of regional forums of Belarus and Russia.
(02.34-02.40) At that point, there were no investors specifically for the project, there were offers, but unfortunately, we didn’t get along with these investors.