ICAROS GmbH, founded in 2015 and based in Martinsried, develops innovative training
systems that combine hardware and virtual reality in a unique way. In the course of numerous
installations in training and therapy facilities worldwide, the ICAROS team is reacting to the potential
of their system in neurotherapy with the project N.E.X.T.
Initial internal studies confirm the assumption: In a very short time, significant advances in
coordination, the reduction of spasticity and increased mobility in stroke patients have been
identified.
N.E.X.T stands for “Neuro-Experience-Training”. N.E.X.T., for the first time, includes a self-learning
whole-body neuro-rehabilitation system, consisting of AI software in the form of an ExerGame,
supporting sensors, and a balance system for safe use of patients with restricted mobility in
conjunction with virtual reality.
The system is self-learning and can simultaneously adjust the nature of the tasks of the ExerGame via
feedback from the patient’s performance, so that the patient can achieve individual successes. In this
way, the ExerGame develops into an individualized neuroreha training program that reacts precisely
to the abilities and limitations of a patient
The aim of the project is to create a new type of rehabilitation therapy, for patients with motor
impairments (e.g. brain damage caused by a stroke). A system of AI software in the form of an
ExerGame and networked sensors, movement mechanics and coupled virtual reality, supports
patients with cerebral motor restrictions in overcoming paralysis through a new form of full-body
training. The combination of technologies creates intensive and highly motivating biofeedback for
the patient.
In neurorehabilitation, the sensorimotor overload of the patient is a crucial means to train the
healthy part of the brain in terms of neuroplasticity. The control of the no longer controllable
muscles must be taken over by uninjured areas of the brain and thus relearned. Previous therapy processes will be much more targeted, efficient and faster due to the system.
