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September 15, 2005

NurseBot: Personal Robotic Assistants for the Elderly


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A team from Carnegie-Mellon will show off Pearl, a sexy Nursebot at Denmark's INDEX. The goal of the NurseBot project is to develop mobile, personal service robots that assist elderly people suffering from chronic disorders in their everyday life. "Pearl," the NurseBot is an autonomous mobile robot that "lives" in a private home of a chronically ill elderly person. The robot provides a research platform to test out a range of ideas for assisting elderly people, such as: What would you like to have a robot help out with around the house?

via Medgadget




 

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