A brief intervention with robot-assisted therapy could improve upper limb function in children with cerebral palsy (CP), a new study shows. Researchers randomly assigned 16 children with CP to receive three sessions of conventional therapy and two robot-assisted therapy sessions, or five sessions of conventional therapy. In a blinded assessment, the children who had received robot-assisted therapy showed markedly improved smoothness of movement and manual dexterity compared with the children in the conventional therapy group.