Robots in Health and Social Care: A Complementary Technology to Home Care and Telehealthcare?

Torbjørn S. Dahl and Maged N. Kamel Boulos*

* Corresponding author (MNKB – mnkboulos@ieee.org)

Web links to research projects, devices and products described in above paper, including additional information and online video clips.

DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) robotics challenge call - http://tinyurl.com/darpa-robotics-challenge — permanently archived at: http://tinyurl.com/darparc - for examples of the tasks that robots developed under this challenge call should be capable of tackling in the future, see the news article at: http://ece.osu.edu/reliefrobots

eCAALYX - http://ecaalyx.org/ - the following PowerPoint by the corresponding author offers some insight into the lessons we have learned and approaches we have adopted while working on eCAALYX: http://www.slideshare.net/sl.medic/mnkb-12-mar2013aalinnovateuk

iCub - http://www.icub.org/ - Plymouth University’s research involving iCub humanoid robot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-FOr7hEw1c

Nao programmable humanoid robot (by Aldebaran Robotics, Paris, France) - http://www.aldebaran-robotics.com/ - Plymouth University’s research involving Nao humanoid robot: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-11159327

Neuromate stereotactic robot - http://www.renishaw.com/neuro

Open Hand Project by roboticist J. Gibbard: watch the “egg example” and how it is being handled - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24209140

Veebot robotic phlebotomist — http://www.veebot.com/

The corresponding author also maintains and regularly updates an online “scrapbook” of relevant Web links and pointers at: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100165894171992699139/posts/UZyDcKdtju7