I'm sure if you are in Japan you will get these a lot faster than anywhere else. I bet your hospital has no clue these exist.Maybe you want to ask your doctor to ask to get the robot butler that was created to help Frank in the movie, 'Robot and Frank'. You wouldn't have to worry about money then either.
Robots as tools and partners in rehabilitation
- Date:
- August 17, 2018
- Source:
- University of Freiburg
- Summary:
- Why trust should play a crucial part in the development of intelligent machines for medical therapies.
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A robot congratulates a patient for correctly sorting the colored beakers.
Credit: Shelly Levy-Tzedek
In future decades the need for
effective strategies for medical rehabilitation will increase
significantly, because patients' rate of survival after diseases with
severe functional deficits, such as a stroke, will increase. Socially
assistive robots (SARs) are already being used in rehabilitation for
this reason. In the journal Science Robotics, a research team
led by neuroscientist Dr. Philipp Kellmeyer of the Freiburg University
Medical Center and Prof. Dr. Oliver Müller from the Department of
Philosophy of the University of Freiburg, analyzes the improvements
necessary to make SARs valuable and trustworthy assistants for medical
therapies.
The researchers conclude that the development of SARs not only
requires technical improvements, but primarily social, trust-building
measures. Rehabilitation patients in particular are dependent on a
reliable relationship with their therapists. So there must be trust in
the safety of the robotic system, especially regarding the
predictability of the machines' behavior. Given the ever-growing
intelligence of the robots and with it their independence, this is
highly important.
In addition, robots and patients can only interact well, the scientists explain, when they have shared goals that they pursue through the therapy. To achieve this, aspects of philosophical and developmental psychology must also be taken into account in the development of SARs: the ability of robots to recognize the aims and motives of a patient is a critical requirement if cooperation is to be successful. So there must also be trust for the participants to adapt to one another. The frustration felt by patients, for instance as a result of physical or linguistic limitations, would be avoided if the robots were adapted to the specific needs and vulnerabilities of the patient in question.
Philipp Kellmeyer and Oliver Müller are members of the Cluster of Excellence BrainLinks-BrainTools of the University of Freiburg. The study also involved Prof. Dr. Shelly Levy-Tzedek and Ronit Feingold-Polak from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. In the 2018/19 academic year, the Freiburg researchers together with the legal academic Prof. Dr. Silja Vöneky and the IT specialist Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard, both from the University of Freiburg, are developing a Research Focus into normative aspects of interaction between people and autonomous intelligent systems at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS).
In addition, robots and patients can only interact well, the scientists explain, when they have shared goals that they pursue through the therapy. To achieve this, aspects of philosophical and developmental psychology must also be taken into account in the development of SARs: the ability of robots to recognize the aims and motives of a patient is a critical requirement if cooperation is to be successful. So there must also be trust for the participants to adapt to one another. The frustration felt by patients, for instance as a result of physical or linguistic limitations, would be avoided if the robots were adapted to the specific needs and vulnerabilities of the patient in question.
Philipp Kellmeyer and Oliver Müller are members of the Cluster of Excellence BrainLinks-BrainTools of the University of Freiburg. The study also involved Prof. Dr. Shelly Levy-Tzedek and Ronit Feingold-Polak from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. In the 2018/19 academic year, the Freiburg researchers together with the legal academic Prof. Dr. Silja Vöneky and the IT specialist Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard, both from the University of Freiburg, are developing a Research Focus into normative aspects of interaction between people and autonomous intelligent systems at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS).
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Journal Reference:
- Philipp Kellmeyer, Oliver Mueller, Ronit Feingold-Polak, Shelly Levy-Tzedek. Social robots in rehabilitation: A question of trust. Science Robotics, 2018; 3 (21): eaat1587 DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.aat1587
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