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This paper proposes a Rehabilitation Robotic Walker (RRW) for walking assistance and body weight support (BWS) during gait rehabilitation.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Methods:<\/jats:bold> The walker provides the patients with weight offloading and guiding force to mimic a series of the physiotherapist\u2019s (PT\u2019s) movements, and creates a natural, comfortable, and safe environment. This system consists of an omnidirectional mobile platform, a BWS mechanism, and a pelvic brace to smooth the motions of the pelvis. To recognize the human intentions, four force sensors, two joysticks, and one depth-sensing camera were used to monitor the human-machine information, and a multimodal fusion algorithm for intention recognition was proposed to improve the accuracy. Then the system obtained the heading angle E, the pelvic pose F, and the motion vector H via the camera, the force sensors, and the joysticks respectively, classified the intentions with feature extraction and information fusion, and finally outputted the motor speed control through the robot\u2019s kinematics.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold> To validate the validity of the algorithm above, a preliminary test with three volunteers was conducted to study the motion control. 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