Improve the quality of life of the elderly
Elderly people have many diseases, the robot can act as a disease recorder, medical file record library, which allows the doctor to have a more complete understanding of the condition, so that more accurate guidance can be made.
Since the guardianship robot does not need to rest, and in the process of work can be a long time for continuous monitoring, and through its own carrying sensors and other monitoring, equipment to monitor the object of observation, and collect the corresponding physiological characteristics of the information, and ultimately stored, to facilitate the follow-up of the elderly targeted treatment and analysis. This is conducive to the elimination of the elderly disease.
The nursing robot also has a remote transmission function, which can upload the information it collects in real time.
Doctors only need to receive the medical information uploaded by the robotic device can treat patients without leaving their homes, and patients can also communicate directly with doctors face-to-face through the robot's communication network. This not only saves the time of traveling to the hospital, but also ensures the best time for the treatment of diseases, which is important to ensure the health of the elderly. Especially for those who have mobility problems, the role and advantages of home care robots are especially obvious. At the same time, real-time telemedicine through the realization of the home care robot, not only to achieve the traditional telemedicine to improve the efficiency of medical care, but also to overcome the problem of traditional medical care accuracy is not high.
The care robot can also be used for the elderly usually have limited limbs, robotic devices can play a role in assisting activities, such as helping to get up, help to pass the goods, and so on.
For the phenomenon of memory loss of the elderly, the robot can be set to remind the service, which improves the social life of the elderly.
Of course, for some emergencies, robots can also play an emergency rescue mission.
These functions of the robot are especially important for the monitoring of the physiological health of the elderly as well as for home care.
Liberating the labor force
The advantages of nursing robots are also reflected in their impact on society.
Due to the rising cost of labor, people are eager to be freed from boring and repetitive labor to do something more meaningful.
Service and care for the elderly is a long-term process, which is somehow a waste of resources for caregivers. For some families, if there are elderly people who need care at home (especially the sick elderly), it will cause more or less burden to other family members, and the emergence of care robots will greatly reduce the time they put into caring for the elderly. For the society as a whole, it can solve the social security problem of social aging, promote social harmony and provide a good environment for economic development.
The application of service robots in caring for the elderly can not only liberate a group of laborers, but also promote the development of the robotics industry and advance the industrialization and marketization of robots.
The application of robots in the tertiary industry makes a certain contribution to the adjustment of industrial structure and can promote the stable development of the national economy.
Two, the development of nursing robots in the world
(1) Europe's nursing robots:
In the mid-1970s, the Spartacus operator project in France aimed at helping paraplegic patients and the Heidelberg project in Germany opened up a new chapter of service robots. Britain in the late 1970s, took a series of measures to support the development of robotics, to encourage the research and application of robotics, ushered in the development of service robotics research and development of the boom period. 1982, the Netherlands developed a mounted on the tea tray can be fed, turning the pages of the experimental manipulator RSI for the wheelchair manipulator in 1984 Manus put into production and use to lay the foundation.
(2) the United States of America's care robots:
The United States is the earliest research and production of care robots, is the birthplace of a variety of robots, with a large number of the world's first-class robotics design, manufacturing companies.
After the United States entered the 1980s, the government and the business community to robotics really pay attention to encourage robotics research and development, formulate development plans, raise investment, in the market launched a considerable number of service robot products.
In 1984, the typical representative of care robots - robot HelpMate came out. This is a fully autonomous mobile robot system, on which a variety of sensors are installed, with obstacle avoidance and autonomous navigation functions, can be operated through the human-machine interface to specify the destination, to complete the delivery of medicines, food, medical records and other tasks.HelpMate will open doors and can take the elevator. It is currently used in 80 hospitals worldwide.
In 1985, the "nurse's aide" robot began to develop, and in 1990 put into production and sales in dozens of hospitals around the world. It can create convenience for patients: delivering medical records, delivering meals, and it can also be a nurse's little helper: delivering medicines, medical equipment, etc.
(3) Japan's nursing robots:
Japan is known as the "Kingdom of Robots", entertainment robots, tour guide robots, cleaning robots and other robots are widely involved in all aspects of people's lives. Japan's care robots and other countries, compared with the production of large, multi-functional, wide range of applications. Japan has been promoting the development of household robots as a national policy, and formulated a "technology strategy blueprint", the development of robotics planning.
Japan since the 1960s the introduction of U.S. robots and technology, after the development of the seventies and eighties, Japan's aging development trend is obvious, the Japanese government began to attach great importance to the research and development of care robots. Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry released the "National Technology Strategic Plan" predicts that care robots will gradually enter the ordinary family life. In addition to the government's attention, a large number of Japanese manufacturing and R & D companies have developed care robots, the establishment of automated production lines of robots, logistics, warehouse automation equipment to become an integrated supplier. Japan Robotics Association estimates that Japan's domestic robotics market share in 2025 will reach 931 billion yen, mainly focused on medical care and welfare services. The association hopes that smart devices will be able to serve the elderly when the problem of an aging society becomes acute.
In 2005, a Japanese company developed two types of home robots, the "companion type" and the "recognition type," to support the lives of senior citizens. These two robots use multiple built-in microphones and advanced image and voice recognition technology to realize the function that the robot can understand the user's commands and follow the user automatically.
(4) Korea's care robots:
Korea has a high degree of independent intellectual property rights in robotics technology and has initiated a national strategy to develop robots, with a focus on service robots. South Korea's service robotics technology to give key support, and intelligent service robots identified as the 21st century to promote the country's economic growth, one of the nine new growth engines, and strive to make it a new point of economic growth, the South Korean government to unite enterprises, universities, researchers, set the strength of the research and development of service robot design and development of service robots and the development of service robots set off a trend in South Korea. South Korean scientists developed a humanoid robot - Android robot, with real-time data transmission, sound and image power sensors, high-speed processors and other technologies, with distance measurement, sound recognition, processing command signals and interaction with the surrounding environment and other functions.