What does the Robear do?

What does the Robear do?

Robear is a nursing robot developed by Riken and Sumitomo Riko Company. Unveiled this month, the robot is designed to lift patients out of beds and into wheelchairs, as well as helping those who need assistance to stand up. Robear weighs in at 140kg, and is the successor to heavier robots RIBA and RIBA-II.

How much does Robear cost?

The current cost of the Robear prototype is estimated to be between $168,000 and $252,000, but the hope is that the cost can come down to more reasonable levels in the decades to come.

What are the features of robot Robear?

it is lighter than its predecessors, weighing just 140kg compared to 230kg, and incorporates a small base.

• the machine can carry patients from their bed to their wheelchair.
• its very low gear ratio enables fast but precise movements.
• the robot is of assistance to people who need help to stand.

How tall is Robear?

Robear is a shiny white Japanese-made medical robot. Developed in part by Dr. Toshiharu Mukai, a professor of Meijo University’s department of information engineering, Robear stands about four feet tall, has long arms and looks like a bear. But a robotic one that just rolled out of a Disney movie.

What can Nao robot do?

Nao is a small humanoid robot designed to interact with people. It’s packed with sensors (and character) and it can walk, dance, speak, and recognize faces and objects. Now in its sixth generation, it is used in research, education, and healthcare all over the world.

When was Robear made?

It’s a high-tech teddy with a mission: helping make elderly care much easier in the future. Robear is the brainchild of Toshiharu Mukai (above left), an affable scientist who has been leading his Robot Sensor Systems Research Team at the Riken-SRK Collaboration Center for Human-Interactive Robot Research since 2007.

How many degrees of freedom does Robear have?

The robot also has six-axis torque sensors, cameras, a microphone and 27 degrees of freedom, or axes of motion. At 140 kilograms, the 1.5-meter-tall Robear is 90kg lighter than Riba II, unveiled in 2011.

What is Robear made of?

It also incorporates three types of sensors, including torque sensors and Smart Rubber capacitance-type tactile sensors made entirely of rubber, which allow for gentle movements, ensuring that the robot can perform power-intensive tasks such as lifting patients without endangering them.

When was Robear created?

What is a Robear robot?

Scientists from RIKEN and Sumitomo Riko Company Limited have developed a new experimental nursing care robot, ROBEAR, which is capable of performing tasks such as lifting a patient from a bed into a wheelchair or providing assistance to a patient who is able to stand up but requires help to do so.

Why is Paro a seal?

PARO was designed as a baby harp seal because this is seen as a ‘neutral’ animal – most of us do not have prior negative experiences with a seal, as we may have with other animals such as a dog. Read more about Paro’s success here.

What is the RIKEN-SRK robot?

It was developed by the RIKEN-SRK Collaboration Center for Human-Interactive Robot Research in Nagoya, and is designed to be strong, yet gentle, with a cartoonish head and a soft design that is intended to be as un-Transformer-like as possible.

What is the difference between Robear and RIKEN’s RIBA?

The first model announced in 2009 was called RIBA, followed by RIBA-II in 2011, though Riken also came out with a Pillsbury Doughboy-like model way back in 2006 called RI-MAN. Robear weighs 309 pounds, making it a lot lighter than its 507-pound predecessor.

What happened to the RIKEN-SRK collaboration center?

Addendum (July 23, 2015): The RIKEN-SRK Collaboration Center for Human-Interactive Robot Research was closed at the end of March 2015, so this project is no longer being carried out at RIKEN. Dr. Mukai is now at Meijo University. ROBEAR helps a person rise from a sofa and sit in a wheelchair.

What is Robear and how does it work?

Robear is a high-tech teddy designed to lift an elderly patient from a bed into a wheelchair. Robear comes from Toshiharu Mukai, a scientist who leads the Robot Sensor Systems Research Team at the Riken-SRK Collaboration Center for Human-Interactive Robot Research.