TEDIRO stands for ThErapy and DIagnosis RObots and is a multiple award-winning tech startup. We are developing healthcare apps (including medical devices) running on mobile service robots (and humanoids in the future). Our first product is an application for gait training - and the robot with this app is, according to our research, the first autonomously navigating therapy robot that has been certified as a medical device. With this, we want to drive technological change in therapy and shape the market for robotics in healthcare.

Our focus is on developing software applications for therapy and diagnostics that can be used by medical staff to mobilize their patients on the mobile robot THERY, with more robots to be added. For instance, we are using camera-based motion capture so that the robots can analyze the movement sequences of patients and provide them with feedback. To do this, we use proprietary AI as well as AI that is available on the market.

While we initially develop our software applications on the THERY robot platform, our platform approach also aims to enable us to offer third-party applications on this robot as well as further robots from future partners to cover a broad spectrum of applications.

TEDIRO's goal is to redefine the relationship between humans and robots and to provide healthcare institutions worldwide with technology that helps them to ensure the quality of treatment for their patients, to improve their workflows and to restore or maintain the mobility of their patients for as long as possible.

Our first application, a gait training program using forearm supports, is aimed at patients who have undergone surgery on the lower musculoskeletal system, such as hip or knee surgery, and was developed in collaboration with physiotherapists from Waldkliniken Eisenberg, one of the largest orthopaedic hospitals in Germany. This first application is now available as a medical device within the EU.

Our partner MetraLabs who provides the THERY platform has many years of experience in the field of mobile robotics and relies on the proprietary navigation CogniDrive, which guarantees particularly robust operation. Besides supplying the robot apps, TEDIRO has developed its own cloud-based therapy management system. This system allows, on the one hand, the operation of the robot within the facilities to be configured and, on the other hand, training plans for patients to be created and the results of the training sessions to be documented and exported during the course of the stay.

Our goal is to become a leading global supplier of mobile therapy and diagnostic robot apps and to develop innovative medical products that are intuitive to use. We are supported on this journey by a team that covers the areas of robotics, computer vision & AI, cloud-based software development and physiotherapy. TEDIRO also holds an extensive portfolio of industrial property rights.

The company was originally spun off from MetraLabs and Ilmenau University of Technology by Anke Mayfarth and Dr. Christian Sternitzke and is based in Ilmenau and Leipzig, Germany.