Portuguese start-up aims to revolutionise physical rehabilitation industry

Simplifying recovery: Bento wants to offer patients physical, interactive rehabilitation in the comfort of their own home.

LISBON: When Virgilio Bento's brother had to go to Cuba 20 years ago to receive cheap physiotherapy as he recovered from a life-threatening car crash back home in Portugal, he did not know it would inspire an innovation.   

Now, after developing technology that uses body sensors and artificial intelligence for his doctorate in electronic engineering, Bento aims to transform the way victims of strokes and accidents physically recover.