Sunmoon University "re-R" Team Tops Asia with AI Rehabilitation Technology

RISE Startup Club Wins Top Honor, the Platinum Award, at Taiwan Innotech Expo

The RISE startup club team "re-R" from Sunmoon University has won the Platinum Award, the highest honor, at the Taiwan Innotech Expo, the largest technology exhibition in Asia.

With its AI-based healthcare solution for knee joint rehabilitation, the team has been recognized for both innovation and commercial potential in the global market, emerging as a leading success story of the Chungnam RISE project.

According to Sunmoon University on October 21, the Taiwan Innotech Expo is Asia's largest invention and technology exhibition, hosted by the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office and organized by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA). This year, more than 530 inventions from 19 countries were exhibited. From Korea, 23 teams participated with 34 works, competing fiercely.

The "re-R" team (led by Oh Sungyeon, Jung Seoha, Jeon Eunyoung, and Park Junhyun, with supervising professor Nam Yeongyo) presented a "patient-customized knee joint rehabilitation solution."

This technology combines a knee joint angle measurement sensor with AI-driven personalized prescription technology, providing an integrated management system that enables real-time measurement of joint range of motion, tracking of symptoms at the surgical site, and AI-based rehabilitation prescriptions.

The judging panel highly praised the solution's practicality and technological integration, calling it "an innovative technology capable of addressing real rehabilitation challenges in an aging society."

This award is the result of systematic support from the Sunmoon University RISE Startup Education Center (headed by Yoo Jaeho), operated as part of the Chungnam RISE project.

The center planned participation in this expo with the goals of "nurturing global entrepreneurial talent" and "establishing a foundation for entry into overseas markets," with support from Chungnam Province and the Chungnam RISE Project Center.

Deputy Director Nam Yeongyo said, "We are proud that our students have developed their ideas into actual technology and achieved results on the international stage," adding, "We will continue to provide follow-up support to help expand its commercial value."

Center Director Yoo Jaeho emphasized, "This award demonstrates the global competitiveness of student entrepreneurship," and added, "We will strengthen the university startup ecosystem that grows together with the local community."

The "re-R" team plans to use this award as a springboard to further advance its AI analysis algorithms, file domestic and international patents, and actively pursue overseas expansion.