December 5th, 13:30-17:45
With the progress of technology and the improvement of living
standards, we are experiencing an unprecedented increase in human lifespan
accompanied by a rapid decline in human fertility. Population ageing has become
a global challenge. How to make the elderly spend their old age with dignity is
becoming a hot issue of concern to many governments and societies, especially
in developed countries.
Life support robots are widely regarded as an effective solution
to the shortage of nursing staff, and expected to make broad market prospects
and huge social benefits. We hope life support robots can take care of the
elderly and even provide necessary spiritual comfort. However, while highly
desired, the reality is far from expectation. They come with their own challenges
-- from both performance and exorbitant cost. Life support robots serve people
with directly touch, putting forward a high requirement for safety, naturalness
and comfortableness. The robots can hardly reach the requirements at present
due to several technical gaps including compliant mechanism, perception and
cognitive decision making, interactive collaboration control, as well as safety
protection and cost reduction. These issues require the efforts of academia and
Industry.
This
workshop aims to address and hopefully bridge these gaps by inviting leading
researchers from academia and experts from industry to discuss the recent
advances and to share their experiences from the perspective of practicality with
respect to life support robots. We also hope this workshop can propel
discussions about possible transfers between the academic results and
industrial applications.
13:30-13:35 Opening speech
Yukio Honda, The University of Tokyo, Japan
13:35-15:30 Topic talks
13:35-13:55 Development and
Implementation of Nursing-care Robots
Yukio Honda, The
university of Tokyo, Japan
13:55-14:15 Development
of Rehabilitation and Nursing Assisted Robots
Hongbo Wang,
Fudan University, China
14:15-14:35 Human-machine
Interaction and Collaboration in Rehabilitation Robotics
Hongliu Yu,
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China
14:35-14:55 Stool and Urine Care Robots
Shuiping Peng,
Zuowei Company, China
14:55-15:15 Wearable Fall Prevention Intelligent System
Guoru Zhao,
Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of
Science, China
15:15-15:35 Nursing-care robots for transfer task
Shijie Guo,
Hebei University of Technology, China
15:35-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-17:30 Discussions
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