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FOCAL MEDITECH BV

Mission:

• Adding value to the lives of Handicapped

Persons

• Adding value to the Assistive Technology Market

FOCAL MEDITECH BV

Developers, manufacturers and distributors of Technical Aids for handicapped persons

• Privately owned • Since 1992 (until 2009: Focal Revalidatietechniek) • 40 employees

• State of the art own R&D and production capacity

• Main focus on Assistive Technology for independent living • Emphasis on products supporting hand function and independent feeding

• Including robotics

• Export to several EU countries and Australasia

• Import of products from US, Japan, Canada

Focal Activity Overview

Production at Tilburg:

• Dynamic Arm supports

• Head supports

• Eating devices

• Personal Robotics

• Special products

Focal Activity Overview

Import and Sales:

• Mealtime support robot MySpoon

• Modular headrests

• Personal robot Jaco

• Social Robot Paro

Focal Activity Overview

Services/Sales:

• Environmental Control Systems

• Systems Integration

• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Devices

Focal Activity Overview

Research & Development:

• Focal and OEM label products

• Joint projects

• Third party research

At National and International level. Demand and User driven!

Focal Product Portfolio

Dynamic Arm Supports: • Market leader

• Used to support weak or paretic arm function

• Goal: compensation of gravity during manual activities

• Types: Darwing, TOP/Help, Sling, Balancer

• Mech. or el. powered

Focal Product Portfolio

Most recent Dynamic Arm

Support: Darwing

• Patented double balancing

mechansim

• Independent support of lower

and upper arm

• Several electronic adjusment

possibilities:

• Adaptation of force against

gravity

• Locking mechanism

• Storage of setting

• Levelling mechanism

Focal Product Portfolio

Headsupports

Headsupport Specialist

• Modular Headrests

• Additional Adjustment

mechanisms

Eating Devices

• Mealtime Support Robot

MySpoon (Secom)

• Various Focal Products

Focal Product Portfolio

Personal Robotics

Wheelchair Mounted Robotics:

• Bridgit, robot on Railsystem

• Jaco, Innovative Leightweight

Robot

Focal Product Portfolio

Social Robotics:

Robotseal Paro for persons

with Dementia

Project McArm: Motion Controlled

Arm Support

A ‘Pieken in de Delta’ Project • Development of a sensor

steered powered dynamic arm support

• For persons with very limited arm force

• For Daily Life and Training

• Building on outcomes of 2 pilot projects

• Intended project outcome: prototype of product

• Bridging the gap between dynamic arm supports and stand alone personal robotics

• Running Time: April 2011- March 2014

Project McArm: Motion Controlled

Arm Support

Consortium

• Focal Meditech, Tilburg

• Zuyd University (TidZ), Heerlen

• MUMC+, Maastricht

• St Radboud Rehab, Nijmegen

• M2Control, Uden

• TU/e (Electronics andMechanics), Eindhoven

• EuroCarbon, Sittard

• National Aerospace Lab., Marknesse