Development of hair-washing robot equipped with scrubbing fingers

Hirose, Tadaki; Fujioka, Soichiro; Muta, Osamu; Nakamura, Tohru

doi:10.1109/icra.2012.6224794

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“…The robotics society is attempting to tackle this challenge of unattended nursing by developing flexible and modular assistive devices that aim to cover the needs for support of everyday tasks involved in the caring of frail people in both in-house [11] and clinical environments. Specifically, devices intended for this purpose involve either static physical interaction [12,13,14], or are mounted on mobile platforms [15,16]. The focus of these solutions lies on a specific body part (e.g., the head) and the support of disabled people on the performance of ADLs with rigid manipulators.…”

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I-Support: A robotic platform of an assistive bathing robot for the elderly population

Zlatintsi

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Kardaris

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Robotics and Autonomous Systems

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In this paper we present a prototype integrated robotic system, the I-Support bathing robot, that aims at supporting new aspects of assisted daily-living activities on a real-life scenario. The paper focuses on describing and evaluating key novel technological features of the system, with the emphasis on cognitive human-robot interaction modules and their evaluation through a series of clinical validation studies. The I-Support project on its whole has envisioned the development of an innovative, modular, ICTsupported service robotic system that assists frail seniors to safely and independently complete an entire sequence of physically and cognitively demanding bathing tasks, such as properly washing their back and their lower limbs. A variety of innovative technologies have been researched and a set of advanced modules of sensing, cognition, actuation and control have been developed and seamlessly integrated to enable the system to adapt to the target population abilities. These technologies include: human activity monitoring and recognition, adaptation of a motorized chair for safe transfer of the elderly in and out the bathing cabin, a context awareness system that provides full environmental awareness, as well as a prototype soft robotic arm and a set of user-adaptive robot motion planning and control algorithms. This paper focuses in particular on the multimodal action recognition system, developed to monitor, analyze and predict user actions with a high level of accuracy and detail in real-time, which are then interpreted as robotic tasks. In the same framework, the analysis of human actions that have become available through the project's multimodal audio-gestural dataset, has led to the successful modelling of Human-Robot Communication, achieving an effective and natural interaction between users and the assistive robotic platform. In order to evaluate the I-Support system, two multinational validation studies were conducted under realistic operating conditions in two clinical pilot sites. Some of the findings of these studies are presented and analysed in the paper, showing good results in terms of: (i) high acceptability regarding the system usability by this particularly challenging target group, the elderly end-users, and (ii) overall task effectiveness of the system in different operating modes.

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I-Support: A robotic platform of an assistive bathing robot for the elderly population

Zlatintsi

Dometios

Kardaris

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Robotics and Autonomous Systems

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“…The autonomous robot, programmed with five senses, has been partly useful [65], but should not replace staff time [66]. No doubt, many more applications are in development, such as hair-washing robots [67], a venepuncture robot to address rolling veins [68] or a smart robotic crutch [69].…”

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Robots in travel clinics: building on tourism’s use of technology and robots for infection control during a pandemic

Bauer

2023

Trop Dis Travel Med Vaccines

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The arrival of COVID-19 impacted every aspect of life around the world. The virus, whose spread was facilitated overwhelmingly by people’s close contact at home and by travelling, devastated the tourism, hospitality, and transportation industry. Economic survival depended largely on demonstrating to authorities and potential travellers the strict adherence to infection control measures. Fortunately, long before the pandemic, the industry had already employed digital technology, artificial intelligence, and service robots, not to keep the world safe, but to either bridge staff shortages or save costs, reduce waiting times, streamline administration, complete unattractive, tedious, or physical tasks, or use technology as marketing gimmicks. With COVID-19, offering social distancing and touchless service was an easy step by extending quickly what was already there. The question arose: could travellers’ acceptance of technology and robots for infection control be useful in travel medicine? COVID-19 fostered the rapid and increased acceptance of touchless technology relating to all things travel. The public’s expectations regarding hygiene, health and safety, and risk of infection have changed and may stay with us long after the pandemic is ‘the new normal’, or a new one approaches. This insight, combined with the current experience with robots in health and medicine, is useful in exploring how robots could assist travel medicine practice. However, several aspects need to be considered in terms of type of robot, tasks required, and the public’s positive or negative attitudes towards robots to avoid known pitfalls. To meet the crucial infection control measures of social distancing and touch avoidance, the use of robots in travel medicine may not only be readily accepted but expected, and implications for management, practice, and research need to be considered.

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“…Robot assistant designed to help caregivers wash patient's hair [35] PR2 Mobile humanoid robot design to support tasks in human environments [30]. Capable of manipulating objects and performing tasks such as setting a table and emptying a dishwasher.…”

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Service robotics for the home

Doelling

Shin

Popa

2014

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments

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This paper provides a review of the state of the art of service robotics for the home. We were primarily interested in major features of commercially available robots and prototype research robots, as well as remaining research challenges and gaps for the future. The review was undertaken in support of an initiative to build advanced smart homes for disabled military service members and their families. These homes will be constructed with the aim to include advanced home automation, robotics, and other assistive technologies.

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Development of hair-washing robot equipped with scrubbing fingers

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I-Support: A robotic platform of an assistive bathing robot for the elderly population

I-Support: A robotic platform of an assistive bathing robot for the elderly population

Robots in travel clinics: building on tourism’s use of technology and robots for infection control during a pandemic

Service robotics for the home

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