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In aging societies, there is a strong demand for robotics to tackle problems caused by the aging population. Patient transfer, such as lifting and moving a bedridden patient from a bed to a wheelchair and back, is one of the most physically challenging tasks in nursing care, the burden of which should be reduced by the introduction of robot technologies. We have developed a new prototype robot named...
In our project on the autonomous guidance of micro-air vehicles (MAVs) in confined indoor and outdoor environments, we have combined an insect vision-based autopilot with a directional sound sensor, with which a miniature hovercraft reaches a sound source along a corridor by automatically controlling its speed, its clearance from the walls and its body yaw. A hovercraft is an air vehicle endowed with...
Advances made in the research of IPMC (ionic polymer metal composite) actuators have shown that this technology is highly suitable for both minituarization, and use in environments that may prohibit the use of conventional actuation devices, such as submerged in a fluid. These characteristics indicate the compositepsilas suitability for implementation by small-scale aquatic vessels, such as those...
Human-interactive robots, such as those used for nursing, which share humans' environments and interact with them, should be covered with soft areal tactile sensors for safety and dexterous manipulation. We report the successful development of the tactile sensor system of our human-interactive robot named RI-MAN, which can lift up a dummy human.
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