Home. Www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/publications/Khaled_Ali/icra97.pdf. Scriptproject.eu. SELEMCA. The Services of Electro-mechanical Care Agencies (SELEMCA) lab is a research facility in Amsterdam dedicated to exploring novel assistive technologies for groups such as elderly persons and people suffering from (mental) health disorders.
More specifically, our mandate includes the development of systems built around human interactions with robots, computer-based agents, and virtual worlds. We refer to these systems as Caredroids, devices or software that will provide a variety of medical services. As traditional channels for secondary health care become scarcer due to aging populations and smaller family sizes, supplementing or replacing existing support networks with technology such as Caredroids will become increasingly critical.
The increasing demand for care services cannot be solved by productivity improvements alone. A new approach is the use of creative technological solutions to supplement and replace existing care-services. Videos - Innovation Union. Robosoft. McRoberts - Moving technology. Stichting Smart Homes, Nationaal Kenniscentrum Domotica & Slim Wonen - CompanionAble. Stichting Smart Homes, Nationaal Kenniscentrum Domotica & Slim Wonen - Samenwonen met een robot. Newsroom : Innovative rehabilitation for stroke victims.
Innovative rehabilitation for stroke victims [Date: 2013-01-10] A pioneering rehabilitation system has been developed, with the aim of improving the quality of life of those suffering from brain damage.
The WALKX project, was co-funded for two years by the European Commission through the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), and developed by the Biomechanics Institute of Valencia (IBV) in Spain. Health Robotics - HEALTH ROBOTICS. Health Robotics' i.v.STATION Robot Wins Vodafone Award for Neonatal Care at... BOZEN, SUD-TIROL, Italy, July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Robotics today announced that i.v.STATION and Mangiagalli's Clinic won a national grant from the Vodafone Foundation, as selected by Vodafone customers' votes from a group of potential projects, all of which were focused on children's welfare.
This grant provided funding for the i.v.STATION Robot at Mangiagalli, where 6,500 children are born every year, many of them requiring intensive care and complex medication dilutions (including multi-ingredient and double dilutions). Professor Fabio Mosca, Director of the Neonatology and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico's Mangiagalli Institute, stated: "I'm very pleased to have finally found in i.v.STATION the right technology to handle the complexity of Sterile Compounding for Neonatal Care.
Gaspar DeViedma, Health Robotics' Executive Vice President, stated: "This is yet another testimonial to the fact that Health Robotics is the only I.V. Supporting Independent LiVing for the Elderly through RoboticsSILVER. Smart chair: powered by thought. It sounds like something from science fiction, being able to control a device through thought alone.
However, a prototype wheelchair manoeuvred by human thought is very much science fact and was invented by a father and son research team from Australia. For the magic to happen, the user must first be fitted with a headband that reads brainwaves. The chair is then operated when the user thinks certain thoughts and blinks. A camera helps the device to navigate obstacles and if stuck in a crowd, the chair’s own robotic brain takes over, but only for a limited time. Robots under the skin. A team of scientists in Italy have been working on a unique robotic surgery system.
They hope that one day robots could take over the work of surgeons in operation theatres. Gianluigi Petroni is one of the biomedical engineers at the SSSA Biorobotics Institute, he describes one of the procedures that robots could soon be performing: “The robot enters the patient’s body via the navel. A world without limits. New technologies are blurring the boundaries between the real and the virtual world.
The brain can control a machine, and even perceive it as its own body. Can that improve our lives? At Barcelona University, scientists are working on a European Research Project to link a human brain to a robot using skin electrodes and video goggles so that the user feels they are actually in the android body wherever it is in the world. The electrodes measure brain impulses enabling a person to control the robot’s actions without moving their own limbs. Healthcare robots/ Good list of papers and presentations. Projektbeschreibung. Robot with the people in mind - UID service robots designed user-centric. Multi-Role Shadow Robotic System for Independent Living. Press release of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Home - Fraunhofer IPA. Care-O-bot® is the product vision of a mobile robot assistant to actively support humans in domestic environments.
The meanwhile third generation of this successful development series is characterized by a product like system design and for the first time provides the potential to apply manipulating mobile service robots in everyday environments. The use of industrial components approved in daily practice ensures the dependability of the system. Care-O-bot 3 in application Why don't you surprise your customers and visitors by installing an interactive Care-O-bot 3 with individual design and application specific programming in your company building or at the next trade fair? Or you can use Care-O-bot 3 to test and present your latest products and technologies. Members Press Release - IFR International Federation of Robotics.
Schunk, Germany - IFR Partner Service robotics is the future key market 1 April 2011.
Press Release - IFR International Federation of Robotics. Robots to Create More Than a Million Jobs by 2016 Tokyo, 10 November 2011 - ROBOTICS will be a major driver for global job creation over the next five years.
The announcement is based on a study conducted by the market research firm, Metra Martech, "Positive Impact of Industrial Robots on Employment", which was published on Thursday in Tokyo. One million industrial robots currently in operation have been directly responsible for the creation of close to three million jobs, the study concluded.
When Machines Do Your Job. Future work: Andrew McAfee says machines are replacing human workers in more types of occupations. Are American workers losing their jobs to machines? That was the question posed by Race Against the Machine, an influential e-book published last October by MIT business school researchers Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee. The pair looked at troubling U.S. employment numbers—which have declined since the recession of 2008-2009 even as economic output has risen—and concluded that computer technology was partly to blame. Advances in hardware and software mean it’s possible to automate more white-collar jobs, and to do so more quickly than in the past. Health and mobility. Mobility/ medgadget. 0inShare Most wheelchairs suffer from the common problem that their users are always in a sitting position, so talking with others is slightly awkward – and it’s certainly hard to reach for things.
A team at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan developed a battery-powered, joystick-controlled wheelchair that transitions from a sitting to a standing position with a push of a button. Additionally, the device has a few sensors built in that monitors blood pressure and respirations of its user. The i-Transport looks and functions similar to the Tek RMD that also features a drive-in design for easy transfer to and from a bed or chair.
From the university press release: Making Remote Presence Routine. InTouch Health's innovative suite of FDA-Cleared remote presence devices allows physicians to easily perform real-time consults with patients and other physicians and healthcare providers using secure CS interfaces supported by an industry leading, cloud-based SureCONNECT® network infrastructure. In addition to developing and manufacturing category defining remote presence devices, InTouch Health also provides clinical software applications and collaboration tools that easily integrate with and improve the efficiency of hospital workflow processes to improve clinical performance and enhance profitability. Remote Presence Devices CS Interfaces Available for use on any standard PC or iPad® tablet, CS Interfaces allow remote physicians to perform complete acute telemedicine consults from a single portal.
Learn more. Clinical Apps. CHARM LAB Main/Research. Better Than Human: Why Robots Will — And Must — Take Our Jobs. Imagine that 7 out of 10 working Americans got fired tomorrow. What would they all do? It’s hard to believe you’d have an economy at all if you gave pink slips to more than half the labor force. But that—in slow motion—is what the industrial revolution did to the workforce of the early 19th century. Two hundred years ago, 70 percent of American workers lived on the farm.