Is the future of home-based telecare robotic? It’s a question we keep asking as more and more ingenious approaches to robots appear. Here is a ‘telepresence’ robot that is low-cost owing to using a notebook computer for its ‘brain’. Oculus telepresence robot incorporates user’s existing netbook. GizMag. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwv7ZoY7jhY... Continue Reading
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Kompaï robot – a few steps forward
New video from Robosoft shows additional fall detection and location functionality being added to the Kompaï care robot via the Multimodal Interfaces for Disabled and Aging Society (MIDAS) project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLwnpoPfKF8... Continue Reading
Robotic roundup at CES 2011
...item; iRobot’s AVA self-navigating, tablet-controlled droid; Pleo RB, the cuddly dinosaur with a personality that evolves with human interaction and even knows to shiver in a cold room; the Anybot telepresence droid with a laser pointer (keep away from airports); Soft Robots from Quality of Life Technology Center to assist with activities of daily living such as feeding, dressing and transfer; and Autom, the googly-eyed robot diet mentor who tells you if you’ve been dieting or splurging. PARO, our cuddly and vocal harp seal, was also there but wandered off from this roundup. TechRepublic rounds up the robots for you.... Continue Reading
K-SERA for NAO (Video)
The University of Kansas’s student newspaper The University Daily Kansan carries an interview with Jim Juola, one of their professors, who is working on the European Comission’s project is called K-SERA: Knowledgable Service Robots for the Aging. Professor helps develop robot to help the elderly. There’s a neat comment by someone who says they would rather be cared for by a real robot than by a human taught to behave like one. The project is using the diminutive (60cm) NAO robots from French company Aldebaran, as seen in the following 3 minute video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpE4pL5lIJM... Continue Reading
Robotic Care?
2 minutes 18 seconds. Title: Promotional video 1 minute 27 seconds. Title: Demonstration They like robots in Japan and are working hard to turn them into human replacement care givers. RI-MAN, developed by Riken BMC, can ‘see’, ‘hear’ ‘touch’ and ‘smell’ and can lift and carry a person – well, mannequin in the demo. TIME selected RI-MAN as one of the best products of 2006. See the two videos near the top of this page. Watch them both. Scroll down for more information and pictures. After that, you may like to visit the Secom Meal Assistance My Spoon robot site.... Continue Reading
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