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Eli Carmeli is a leading researcher in neurorehabilitation and motor recovery, with a focused expertise in robotic-assisted therapy for stroke patients. His work centers on the innovative concept of error augmentation—a technique that deliberately enhances movement errors during rehabilitation to stimulate proprioceptive feedback and accelerate motor learning. Carmeli’s major contributions include pioneering studies on improving reaching movements in post-stroke patients, demonstrating that robotically driven error augmentation can significantly enhance arm motor recovery and functional outcomes. His most-cited paper, “A preliminary investigation of error enhancement of the velocity component in stroke patients’ reaching movements” (2014, 14 citations), laid the groundwork for this approach, followed by subsequent works such as “Improvement in Hand Trajectory of Reaching Movements by Error-Augmentation” (2018, 9 citations) and “Robotically driven Error Augmentation training enhances post‐stroke arm motor recovery” (2023, 6 citations). Collectively, his research has garnered over 30 citations, highlighting its growing impact on rehabilitation science. Carmeli’s work is notable for bridging robotics and neuroplasticity, offering promising, data-driven strategies to address the rising challenges of stroke-related disability in aging populations.