Robòtica assistencial

In science-fiction keren robots zich tegen mensen om de wereld te overheersen. Maar robots kunnen geen emotionele en bewuste keuzes maken. Toch kunnen ze zo ...

Animatronic cats and dogs have helped staff at a Bedfordshire care home to avoid medicating some residents with dementia

Clara Berridge, associate professor of social work at the University of Washington, discusses her research into how older adults feel about technology that's marketed for their safety and security,...

Collection of studies show five areas where AI tools show promise – and even outperform humans

German Bionic's Apogee+ aims to merge cutting-edge robots with research-backed, data-driven insights to better support caregivers.

Industry observers said these technological innovations are saving caregivers’ time, and enabling nurses to provide better medical services to the elderly under their care.

The global population of people older than 65 years of age is rapidly increasing the need for care. Although care robots are a promising solution to fill in for caregivers, their social implementation has been slow and unsatisfactory. A team of international researchers has now developed the first universal model that can be employed across cultural contexts to explain how ethical perceptions affect the willingness to use care robots.

In December 2022, CHLA became the first children’s hospital in the nation to use Moxi, which supports clinical care team members by taking repetitive, nonpati

Ken and Audrey Mattlin live with a family of robots that can play trivia, turn on the TV and act as security. But will all this technology cure loneliness?

Miko 3 is an artificial intelligence robot designed to communicate with and teach children. The company's SVP Ritvik Sharma shared how the robot combines education and entertainment.

sewts creates autonomous robots that handle textiles and anticipate how they behave using 2D and 3D cameras from IDS Imaging Development Systems.

Social Mediator Robots (SMRs), which facilitate communication by mediating messages among people, are considered to prevent isolation in elderly individuals. To avoid isolation, it is crucial for the elderly to talk about their daily problems to others (self-disclosure). SMRs that support such self-disclosure are being researched and developed.

A new study on AI aims to provide metrics for determining whether robots can help with loneliness, a “Companion Robot Impact Scale.”

Backhug’s 26 mechanical fingers offer personalised joint care. How much can it do for me in six weeks?

UK data watchdog says science of monitoring brain and nervous system is expanding fast but holds ‘real danger’ of discrimination

The Barcelona Aging coLLaboratory (BALL) aims to create, in partnership with end users, innovative solutions to enhance the quality of life, healthcare and social care of older peopleBALL's first project, unveiled today at Barcelona's Pere Virgili hospital, is a humanoid robot that can assist patients unable to feed themselves on their own, providing them with a solution tailor-made for their needs

This short review focuses on the emerging role of artificial intelligence (AI) with robotics in the healthcare sector. It may have particular utility for India, which has limited access to healthcare providers for a large growing population and limited health resources in rural India. AI works with an amalgamation of enormous amounts of data using fast and complex algorithms. This permits the software to quickly adapt the pattern of the data characteristics. It has the possibility to collide with most of the facets of the health system which may range from discovery to prediction and deterrence. The use of AI with robotics in the healthcare sector has shown a remarkable rising trend in the past few years. Functions like assistance with surgery, streamlining hospital logistics, and conducting routine checkups are some of the tasks that may be managed with great efficiency using artificial intelligence in urban and rural hospitals across the country. AI in the healthcare sector is advantageous in terms of ensuring exclusive patient care, safe working conditions where healthcare providers are at a lower risk of getting infected, and perfectly organized operational tasks. As the healthcare segment is globally recognized as one of the most dynamic and biggest industries, it tends to expedite development through modernization and original approaches. The future of this lucrative industry is looking forward to a great revolution aiming to create intelligent machines that work and respond like human beings. The future perspective of AI and robotics in the healthcare sector encompasses the care of elderly people, drug discovery, diagnosis of deadly diseases, a boost in clinical trials, remote patient monitoring, prediction of epidemic outbreaks, etc. However, the viability of using robotics in healthcare may be questionable in terms of expenditure, skilled workforce, and the conventional mindset of people. The biggest challenge is the replication of these technologies to the smaller towns and rural areas so that these facilities may reach the larger segment of the entire population of the country. This review aims to examine the adaptability and viability of these new technologies in the Indian scenario and identify the major challenges.

Robots that can assist caregivers have been talked up as being transformative. But some researchers fear such technology could take more than it gives

New tools use artificial intelligence to assist students with autism and dyslexia and address accessibility for those who are blind or deaf.

The device consists of a wearable harness with sensors that detect when a person is about to fall

New tagged article on Inoreader. NY State is giving out hundreds of robots as companions for the elderly - https://ift.tt/VUH5Cdy

A study from the University of Cambridge used a humanoid robot to administer child mental health questionnaires

While most of us are never without our smartphones, robots may also

Mobility and transport are key in helping people to remain healthy, active and connected in later life. NICA and Piaggio Fast Forward are exploring a new way called ‘pedestrianism’.

Scientific Reports - Exploring the role of human-following robots in supporting the mobility and wellbeing of older people

In ageing societies like Japan, where maintaining racial purity is sacrosanct, people are looking to robots to fill the gap.

International Journal of Social Robotics - Over the last two decades, several deployments of robots for in-house assistance of older adults have been trialled. However, these solutions are mostly...