robots for the disabled
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ROBOTS THAT HELP DISABLED PEOPLE
OBJECTIVES One of the objectives of the technological advance
of last years has been the development of devices that are alike and behave like human beings.
Karel Kapek had the idea of making up a robot. Its name came from Czech "robota“ and means slave in 1921 .
The design of devices and especially of robots to help disabled people begins to be effective at the end of last century. Other prototypes such as new wheelchairs are made up to help disabled people move themselves.
Here we are some examples of robotic wheelchairs:
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WHEELCHAIRS
are one of the most commonly used assistive devices for mobility, and they provide people with mobility within their homes and communities. While wheelchairs were once a symbol of inability and stigmatizing, they have evolved to be highly mobile forms of self-expression that are often fitted to each individual user.
WITH THE HELP OF A REMOTE HUMAN ASSISTANT
a person with disability pilots a robotic mobility and manipulation system and opens a refrigerator door to retrieve a pre-prepared meal from home. Cooperative control leaves the person with disability in command, and the ability to use the capabilities of both the local pilot and remote human assistant enable safe, effective, and efficient operation of the robotic system in natural environments.
Motorized beds The control of the movements of
motorized beds allow the user to change different positions when he/she reads, watches TV, sleeps, etc.
Derricks There are derricks, travelling cranes with wheels and derricks that circulate along rails, located on the ceilings or on the walls. The derricks allow people to move themselves and they are placed in different zones of a house (for example on the beds, in the shower, in the bath, which make disabled people raise or lay on their bed, to have a shower, and to go to their bathroom…
Elevators and lifts (chairs and platforms)
Elevators or lifts with a chair and a platform allow the user to save obstacles as going upstairs or downstairs
Faucets, soap-dishes and hand dryers
Faucets, soap-dishes and hand dryers can be controlled, placing ones’ hands under them, because there is a sensor, which makes the water of the faucet fall, use a dose of liquid soap, or activate a hand dryer.
Automatic water-closets Water-closets can be dried
automatically
Robots to eat The Robots are designed to
help people without any limbs to eat alone.
Robots vacum-cleanears help disabled people’s ot sweep or
clean their houses
Thanks to Robots disabled people live better and behave like the rest of human beings who haven’t got any problems to move themselves.
TEAM 2Laura Viciana Estévez – Spain
Julia Hilgartner - PolandNatalia Remieszko - Poland
Adrianna Figiel - PolandMonika Nems - Poland
Kiara Olivera Sánchez-Pinto – SpainNur Morales de Paz – Spain
Talisa Tufts- SpainBenedikt -Germany