Cost-Savings and Economic Benefits Due to the Assistive Robotic Manipulator (ARM)

Abstract

Besides the social and personal benefits of a rehabilitation robot, the direct cost-savings and other (indirect) economic benefits, or effectiveness, are of major importance to party who pays for (or reimburses) the rehabilitation robot. This paper gives an overview of these cost-savings and, on a larger scale, economic benefits of the assistive robotic manipulator (arm) rehabilitation robot.