Eldercare robots
From: ECN - 11/06/2012
By: Frank Tobe

In December 2003, BusinessWeek Magazine interviewed Joseph Engelberger, the
robotics pioneer. The article was entitled "How Robots Lost Their Way."
Included in the article was a plea for money to build an eldercare robot
which Engelberger thought could be built with then-current technologies,
rented for $600 per month, operated at a cost of $1.25 per hour (compared to
healthcare homeworkers who cost around $15 per hour) and developed at a cost
of less than $700,000.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.ecnmag.com/blogs/2012/11/eldercare-robots

Source:
http://www.everything-robotic.com/2012/11/eldercare-robots.html

Links:
How Robots Lost Their Way
http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2003-11-30/how-robots-lost-their-way

Public attitudes towards robots
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_382_fact_dk_en.pdf

Robots in the Home: Will Older Adults Roll out the Welcome Mat?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121025161518.htm

A Frank Review of the movie ‘Robot & Frank’
http://robohub.org/a-frank-review-of-the-movie-robot-frank-2

Socially Assistive Robotics: An NSF Expedition in Computing
http://www.robotshelpingkids.org

Healthcare Robotics
http://www.hsi.gatech.edu/hrl

Bestic - an eating assistive device
http://www.robotdalen.se/en/Projects/Bestic---a-feeding-robot

Giraff - a mobile solution for the home
http://www.robotdalen.se/en/Projects/Giraff---a-mobile-robot-for-the-home

Traini Test - rehabilitation robot
http://www.robotdalen.se/en/Projects/TrainiTest---rehabilitation-robot

[zoom]uphill - takes you out into nature
http://www.robotdalen.se/en/Projects/ZoomCamp---takes-you-out-into-nature

CompanionAble - Mobile Robot Companion
http://www.companionable.net

VGo
http://www.vgocom.com