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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.
Römer et al. (Tue,) studied this question.