Adans-Dester, Catherine
Fasoli, Susan E.
Fabara, Eric
Menard, Nicolas
Fox, Annie B.
Severini, Giacomo
Bonato, Paolo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1818-1714
Article History
Received: 13 December 2019
Accepted: 9 July 2020
First Online: 8 August 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the Partners Healthcare Institutional Review Board and all methods were carried out in accordance with the approved study protocol (record ID: 2015P002107). Participants provided written informed consent before their participation in the study.
: Written informed consent for publication was obtained from the study participants.
: The authors have no financial interests related to the content of this manuscript.Additional disclosures: GS has received grant support (as Principal Investigator) from the EU (H2020) and Enterprise Ireland. SF received funding support from the MGH Institute of Health Professions, Faculty Research Fellowship and would like to acknowledge a research loan of the Amadeoâ„¢ robot from Tyromotion (Graz, AT) for this pilot study. PB has received grant support from the American Heart Association, the Department of Defense, the Michael J Fox Foundation, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Peabody Foundation including sub-awards on NIH and NSF SBIR grants from Barrett Technology (Newton MA), BioSensics (Watertown MA) and Veristride (Salt Lake City UT). He has also received grant support from Emerge Diagnostics (Carlsbad CA), MC10 (Lexington MA), Mitsui Chemicals (Tokyo Japan), Pfizer (New York City NY), Shimmer Research (Dublin Ireland), and SynPhNe (Singapore). He serves in an advisory role the Michael J Fox Foundation, the NIH-funded Center for Translation of Rehabilitation Engineering Advances and Technology, and the NIH-funded New England Pediatric Device Consortium. He also serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards of Hocoma AG (Zurich Switzerland), Trexo (Toronto Canada), and ABLE Human Motion (Barcelona, Spain) in an uncompensated role. The other authors have no disclosures relevant to the study.