Assisted Living with robots is a new promising technology field and many ideas and solutions for elderly care and physically impaired people have been developed in recent years. Robots can be used to assit elderly in daily activities such as transportation tasks, in emergency situations and as intelligent communication agent. A robot at home can work as a security agent, handle reminder messages and can work as a proactive mobile video-phone and call relatives by own initiative if needed. Robots can be used as walking aids, guidance systems for the blind (RoboCart) and as home robot systems like the Care-o-bot.
At the The Mobile Robotics Laboratory, University of Orebro, Sweden, an ecological approach to robot-assisted living is studied to provide ubiquitous robotic services in the home to the citizen of the future is studied. Human inhabitants might also be seen as parts of the ecology. The research is focused on the presence and needs of humans who need special assistance, like elderly or disabled persons.
Swedish innovation cluster Robotdalen is supporting research and development of robots for assisting elderly and disabled people. One great exampel is eating aid Bestic a robotic arm with a spoon or pincers at the end. The user controls the movements by means of buttons or joystick or other controls to select food from the plate and move it to the mouth. The user is thus able to eat without external help. See video demonstration here.
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