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<blockquote data-quote="The Feedster" data-source="post: 508821" data-attributes="member: 259515"><p>Researchers from the University of Massachusetts (UMASS) in the US believe they may have come up with a solution to help relieve the pressure of having to care for an increasingly aged population – residential-home robots.</p><p>According to a <a href="http://www.livescience.com/technology/080416-robot-calls-help.html" target="_blank">report in LiveScience</a> the robots are able to carry out a number of functions likely to be useful in such an environment, including picking up small objects, using a stethoscope, reminding patients to take their prescriptions and even dialling US emergency-services number, 911.</p><p>“For the first time, robots are safe enough and inexpensive enough to do meaningful work in a residential environment,” explains Rod Grupen from the UMASS team who’ve built the prototype.</p><p><strong>The uBOT-5</strong></p><p>Dubbed the uBOT-5 by the team who built it, each robot costs about $65,000 (£32,500) to build in the lab. However, Grupen believes those figures could be slashed to just a “couple of thousand” if the robots were to be mass produced in a dedicated factory.</p><p>If that’s the case then residential-home robots could end up paying for themselves within a month of deployment – especially given that a human equivalent can reportedly cost up to £1,500 (£750) to employ per week.</p><p>Better still, the uBOT-5 developed by UMASS can do more than just administer live-saving treatment – it’s also able to act as a ‘virtual’ house doctor by using its on-board camera, microphone, internet connection and touch-screen display. **</p><p>And as Grupen points out, on-baord internet access has other benefits too, such as enabling granny to receive virtual visits from her grandchildren from just about anywhere in the world.</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/robots-rising-to-the-baby-boomer-challenge--323635" target="_blank">More...</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Feedster, post: 508821, member: 259515"] Researchers from the University of Massachusetts (UMASS) in the US believe they may have come up with a solution to help relieve the pressure of having to care for an increasingly aged population – residential-home robots. According to a [URL="http://www.livescience.com/technology/080416-robot-calls-help.html"]report in LiveScience[/URL] the robots are able to carry out a number of functions likely to be useful in such an environment, including picking up small objects, using a stethoscope, reminding patients to take their prescriptions and even dialling US emergency-services number, 911. “For the first time, robots are safe enough and inexpensive enough to do meaningful work in a residential environment,” explains Rod Grupen from the UMASS team who’ve built the prototype. [B]The uBOT-5[/B] Dubbed the uBOT-5 by the team who built it, each robot costs about $65,000 (£32,500) to build in the lab. However, Grupen believes those figures could be slashed to just a “couple of thousand” if the robots were to be mass produced in a dedicated factory. If that’s the case then residential-home robots could end up paying for themselves within a month of deployment – especially given that a human equivalent can reportedly cost up to £1,500 (£750) to employ per week. Better still, the uBOT-5 developed by UMASS can do more than just administer live-saving treatment – it’s also able to act as a ‘virtual’ house doctor by using its on-board camera, microphone, internet connection and touch-screen display. ** And as Grupen points out, on-baord internet access has other benefits too, such as enabling granny to receive virtual visits from her grandchildren from just about anywhere in the world. [url=http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/robots-rising-to-the-baby-boomer-challenge--323635]More...[/url] [/QUOTE]
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