Reverse Engineering as a Way to Save Environment with-in Patient-Tailored Production of Assistive Technology Devices – Based on Own Hand Exoskeleton Case Study

The paper shows own study on a hand exoskeleton described from environmental point of view: starting from constraints caused by patient-tailored therapy and healthy/disordered human biomechanics through possible problems associated with material engineering (mechanical properties, biocompatibility, etc.) and their compensation by exoskeleton’ designers to material and technological limitations associated with recycling. The purpose of this article is to investigate how current opportunities in this area are being used, including reverse engineering as a part of the concept of the disabled person’s hand exoskeleton. There is no doubt that more research is needed for a more complete understanding