A total of 20 patients has been recruited, all of them received on daily basis 1 hour of robot therapy in adjunction to 1 hour of standard therapy. Overall the hour of robotic therapy include both subject preparation (15 minutes to place surface electrodes on the forearm and set the right position of sitting and upper limb) and delivery of exercises. The treatment protocol includes passive and active training of flexion and extension movements of the fingers. The passive part lasts 5 minutes, while the active one provides 25 total minutes divided into 5 exercises. The robot therapy lasts 15 consecutive sessions, 5 times a week, for 3 weeks.