Sao Paulo – Robotic systems and advanced technologies, together with innovative clinical protocols, facilitate the recovery of stroke patients and those with respiratory diseases. These are the latest results brought by the Joint Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering and Rehabilitation in Volterra (Pisa), the Rehabilitation Centre “Auxilium Vitae,” and the Institute of Bio robotics at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa. Stefano Mazzoleni, a researcher at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, will present them during the 5th edition of BioRob, the most important international conference on biomedical robotics and bio mechatronics, held in São Paulo (Brazil) August 12-15. (9Colonne)