...both domestic use and–where the real money is–export. The Abe government in 2012 budgeted ¥2.39bn ($21m) for development of nursing care robots, with the Ministry for Economy, Trade and Industry tasked to find and subsidize 24 companies–not a lot of money and parceled out thinly. Five years later, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare determined that “deeper work is needed on machinery and software that can either replace human care workers or increase staff efficiency.” Even Panasonic concurred that robots cannot offset the loss of human carers on quality of services. At this point. Japan leads in robots under... Continue Reading
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It’s EPIC: Ehealth Productivity and Innovation in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
The EPIC project’s aim is to improve the use of technology in both health and social care for the better health and well-being of people in Cornwall and–quite ambitiously–improve the Cornish economy through developing this sector. Its core is at the University of Plymouth with partners Creative England, Kernow Health CIC, Cornwall Partners in Care, and the Patients Association, with partial funding by the European Regional Development Fund. Technologies can include: personal and clinical apps, activity/fitness trackers, telemedicine, therapy websites for cognitive behavior, sensor-based alarm and ADLs that can support people in hospital or with dementia. Robots like the humanoid... Continue Reading
Robot roundup: doctor cars, teleworkers, robogiggers, errant NAO robots
[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Overrun-by-Robots1-183×108.jpg” thumb_width=”200″ /]This month your Editor’s been ‘overrun by robots’ in the news! Here’s the roundup for your end of August reading, with an emphasis on how humans interact with robot helpers, especially at work: [grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/7-who-needs-a-hospital-when-this-self-driving-doctor-comes.jpg” thumb_width=”150″ /]The doctor’s car has been around since the 1904 Buick, but the Seattle firm Artefact takes it one step further by combining the self-driving car with a fully automated clinic on wheels that arrives at your home, minus the doctor. Step in and it takes your weight, BMI, posture, respiration, and other sensor-based measurements guided through augmented reality instructions. It has... Continue Reading
‘Serving with heart’: two glimpses of innovation in Singapore and Thailand
Probably a first for this Editor is news from Singapore on the healthcare technology and innovation front. The first report comes from Today where Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean advocates for the interesting combination of embracing innovation and ‘serving patients with heart.’ Speaking at the opening of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine’s Clinical Sciences Building in Novena, Mr. Teo talked not only about pathogens and biomedical research but also about remote patient monitoring, tele-consulting, and home-care robots. From Thailand but addressing the Asia-Pacific market is Caroline Clarke, CEO for Philips Asean Pacific, on the region’s aging population... Continue Reading
Philips publishes second annual Future Health Index on access, integration and tech adoption
...AI-assisted tools for guidance. Hologram doctors and robots cruised around 10 percent (!) [grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/AI-from-Philips-1.jpg” thumb_width=”250″ /] Editor’s note: While incredibly comprehensive, this Editor will express a certain disappointment in the researchers’ selection of US and UK experts. This Editor could name five to ten experts and patient advocates in US and UK from personal contacts (including our UK-based Editors) without thinking particularly hard–and with a little homework UAE and Africa–who could have informed their study. This Editor also had the pleasure to meet two of Philips’ connected health executives at this month’s Health 2.0 NYC/MedStartr meeting on population health... Continue Reading
AI good, AI bad. Perhaps a little of both?
...will go to an analysis of a report by Forrester Research on AI in the workforce. No, we are not about to lose our jobs, yet, but hold on for the top six in the view of Gil Press in Forbes: Customer self-service in customer-facing physical solutions such as kiosks, interactive digital signage, and self-checkout. AI-assisted robotic process automation which automates organizational workflows and processes using software bots. Industrial robots that execute tasks in verticals with heavy, industrial-scale workloads. Retail and warehouse robots. Virtual assistants like Alexa and Siri. Sensory AI that improves computers’ recognition of human sensory faculties and... Continue Reading
Toyota’s $14 million bet on Intuition Robotics’ social companion robot (JP/IL/US)
Social companion robots for older adults and the disabled are hot again. Tel Aviv and now San Francisco-based Intuition Robotics is enjoying a $14 million second Series A investment from Toyota Research Institute (TRI) for the ElliQ ‘active aging companion’. The ElliQ desktop robot is tethered to a proprietary tablet to connect an older adult with the outside world via video chat, using machine learning about the person to recommend activities, and assist with appointments, medication reminders, music, wellness, and environmental monitoring. ElliQ is still in pre-release. The $14 million is being put to immediate use in initial testing with... Continue Reading
KOMPAÏ seeks €250,000 to develop next gen assistive robot (FR/EU)
[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Kompai-photo017B-low.jpg” thumb_width=”200″ /]KOMPAÏ, which has been developing assistive robots under that name for older and frail people with their caregivers since 2009 (Founder Steve saw the KOMPAÏ-1 in 2011), has spun off as an independent company after acquiring the IP from the developer ROBOSOFT. They are marketing the current KOMPAÏ-2 (see left) which has been on the market since early 2016 [TTA 24 Sept 15]. KOMPAÏ CEO and founder Vincent Dupourqué announced in their press release they are seeking €250,000 to fund the development of the KOMPAÏ-3 as a scalable physical and cognitive assistive robot, primarily for the assisted... Continue Reading
Behave, Robot! DARPA researchers teaching them some manners.
[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Overrun-by-Robots1-183×108.jpg” thumb_width=”150″ /]Weekend Reading While AI is hotly debated and the Drudge Report features daily the eeriest pictures of humanoid robots, the hard work on determining social norms and programming them into robots continues. DARPA-funded researchers at Brown and Tufts Universities are, in their words, working “to understand and formalize human normative systems and how they guide human behavior, so that we can set guidelines for how to design next-generation AI machines that are able to help and interact effectively with humans,” said Reza Ghanadan, DARPA program manager. ‘Normal’ people determine ‘norm violations’ quickly (they must not live in... Continue Reading
Successful Aging 2030: how far we haven’t come, how far we have to go
...system. Investing in the Future of Healthcare looked at what areas (not what companies) will be hot up to 2030. Robotics in healthcare to help solve workforce shortages. Terry Fulmer, PhD of the John A. Hartford Foundation gave as an example automated functions ‘manned’ by robots in a Taipei hospital. Passive remote monitoring of activity, automated diagnostics that enhance the skills of providers and P2P community care. Sara Eshelman’s investment company, Omidyar Network, has invested in Koko, a cognitive therapy app that provides P2P emotional support. Tech that gets rid of tech (e.g. Alexa) or that addresses a specific need,... Continue Reading
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