AWARD YEAR
2017
CATEGORY
Home
GOALS
Good Health & Well-being
KEYWORDS
robot arm, healthcare, old people
COUNTRY
Italy
DESIGNED BY
Prof. Cecilia Laschi, Biorobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
WEBSITE
http://www.i-support-project.eu/the-project/
I-Support
A SERVICE ROBOTICS SYSTEM FOR BATHING TASKS.
The I-SUPPORT project envisions the development and integration of an innovative, modular, ICT-supported service robotics system that supports and enhances frail older adults’ motion and force abilities and assists them in successfully, safely and independently completing the entire sequence of bathing tasks, such as properly washing their back, their upper parts, their lower limbs, their buttocks and groin, and to effectively use the towel for drying purposes. Advanced modules of cognition, sensing, context awareness and actuation will be developed and seamlessly integrated into the service robotics system to enable the robotic bathing system to adapt to the frail senior citizens population’ abilities and enable frail senior users to interact with the robotic system in a master-slave mode, thus, performing bathing activities in an intuitive and safe way.