Miscellaneous

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Japanese Robot Mouth Narrates Virtual Baby Maker

Uploaded on Apr 21, 2010

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MIT robot schedules baby deliveries

Published on Jul 11, 2016


Researchers at MIT are using an AI robot to help nurses schedule medical procedures in labor wards.

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https://youtu.be/UAhFwCOAEGo

Canadian robot designed to monitor signs of Alzheimer's disease

Published on Jul 27, 2016


University of Toronto researchers have developed a robot to interact with people with Alzheimer's disease. Team leader Frank Rudzicz says the boy-like robot can detect subtle changes in speech to help caregivers make adjustments. (July 26. 2016)

Frank Rudzicz (https://ca.linkedin.com/in/frank-rudzicz-384b4437)

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Article "Robot Nurses Will Make Shortages Obsolete (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/24/robot-nurses-will-make-shortages-obsolete.html)"
By 2022, one million nurse jobs will be unfilled—leaving patients with lower quality care and longer waits. But what if robots could do the job?

by Joelle Renstrom
September 24, 2016

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HOPE : Le robot compagnon de soins

Published on Apr 14, 2018


Avec l'association Vie et Espoir et le CHU de Rouen, nous avons développé un robot capable de faciliter les soins en milieu pédiatrique.

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SAFER Rehabilitation Robot at UZ Brussel - A rehabilitation robot that can sense the patient

Nov 17, 2022


A robot that can feel what a therapist feels when treating a patient, that can adjust the intensity of rehabilitation exercises at any time according to the patient's abilities and needs, and that can thus go on for hours without getting tired: it seems like fiction, and yet researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and imec have now finished a prototype that unites all these skills in one robot. With their prototype, the VUB and imec graduates of the Brubotics research cluster are among the five finalists for the important KUKA Innovation Award at the Medica Fair in German Dusseldorf.

"In rehabilitation after an accident or stroke, it is very important to train the patient as quickly and as much as possible on certain movements," said Kevin Langlois, postdoctoral researcher at Brubotics. "Especially in stroke, where certain neuronal pathways are interrupted, such intensive and prolonged training is appropriate so that the brain can make other neuronal connections to re-learn those movements."

Usually that training is the work of a therapist, who practices as much as possible with the patient. The therapist perfectly senses the degree to which the patient needs support with his exercises. Unfortunately, those therapists' time is usually limited, so patients actually get too little exercise and rehabilitation doesn't go as well as it could.

"Our robot can partly replace that therapist's support," said Joris De Winter , who is collaborating on the project as a doctoral student. "It has an ingenious cuff, the part that attaches around the patient's leg or arm, which can reproduce all the senses in a therapist's hand and therefore can also sense how strongly the patient is cooperating during exercise. We use artificial intelligence to steer the robot and adjust the level of assistance. Our robotic arm is also strong enough to operate both lower and upper limbs, which is also new, and it can perform very complex and functional tasks for longer than a therapist."

In the meantime, the robot has already been tested and appears to be receiving high praise from therapists at the rehabilitation center at the UZ Brussel, who can start using it after just an hour's training. "The feedback we gathered that way was very useful," Langlois says. "We use it to continuously improve our prototype. The goal is to have a robot ready to be commercialized in five to seven years."

BruBotics (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=14777), Brussels Human Robotic Research Center, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium