TOKYO - a new robot with high-quality sensors and technologies, to take a step further in a high-quality care for the growth of the elderly population to the flexible, Japan are.
A robot developed by researchers at the RIKEN and Tokai rubber industries (TRI), can a patient with maximum to lift 80 kg body weight from the floor to the bed and in a wheelchair. This may reduce one of the tasks of the nurse that is quite difficult and requires lots of energy.
Population of older people Japan in the year 2015, requiring that more treatment amounted to 5.7 million people Japan see the urgent need to support the task of care in the hospital. One of the most difficult task for nurses doing these tasks. You do an average 40 times a day.
In 2009, RIKEN-TRI made cooperation Center (RTC), the robot is designed to help the nurses with the name of the RIBA (robot for interactive body assistance). The first generation robot can lift a patient from a bed to a wheelchair and vice versa. But the robot has to make a functional limitations in his work.
RIBA-II is a new robot, the limitations of RTC with additional performance and functionality of many more overcome can be. Joints are new at the base of the robot and the bottom makes the RIBA II hunker down, and lift the patients from the mattress on the floor, the most difficult task for the treatment of physically can, mounted. So was quoted: Japan today Sunday (7/5/2011).
This second generation can robot that complete task, well, because it has a rubber intelligent sensors, mounted on the arm and chest muscles of the robot. These sensors allow the RIBA II to recognize a person weight quickly by touch. To ensure patient safety.
In future, RTC researchers work closely with the nursing partners to test the RIBA II and customize it further to the needs of caregivers and their patients, as they develop new applications such as such as rehabilitation.
TRI with care be robots like RIBA II on the international market in the near future to help. In the hope to be able to support and grow the constantly growing population of older people in the world. (Type)
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