Robots To Care For Dementia Patients

Now You're Talking: Human-Like Robot May One Day Care for Dementia Patients (+Video)

Paige Lim | March 7, 2016

With her brown hair, soft skin and expressive face, Nadine is a new brand of human-like robot that could one day, scientists hope, be used as a personal assistant or care provider for the elderly.
The 1.7-metre tall Nadine was created in the likeness of its maker, Nadia Thalmann, a visiting professor and director of Singapore's Nanyang Technological University's Institute of Media Innovation who has spent three decades researching into virtual humans.
Nadine's software allows the robot to express a range of emotions and recall a previous conversation. Nadine is not commercially available, but Thalmann predicted robots could one day be used as companions for people living with dementia.

Nadine (pictured left) is the next generation of social robots that may appear in offices and care homes in future. Developed by Professor Nadia Thalmann (pictured right), at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, the humanoid is capable or expressing emotions and remembering your last interaction. Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3480644/Meet-Nadine-humanoid-robot-set-PA-care-dementia-patients.html

<more at http://www.reuters.com/article/singapore-humanoid-idUSKCN0W9120; related links: related links and articles: http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-beauty/article/1899158/meet-your-newest-friend-nurse-and-carer-robot-who-reads-your (Meet your newest friend, nurse and carer: a robot who reads your moods and emotions. A social robot equipped with personality, a humanoid face and a good memory could soon be, say, a coach for your autistic son, a minder for your diabetic daughter, a carer for your dad with dementia or a companion for your elderly aunt who lives alone. January 10, 2016) and http://journal.portalgaruda.org/index.php/EECSI/article/view/336/PDF (Assistive Social Robots for People with Special needs. Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann and Zhijun Zhang. Proceeding of International Conference on Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Informatics (EECSI 2014), Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 20-21 August 2014. [Abstract: An increasing number of elderly people leads to demand for social robots to support health care and independent life. An overview of various potential applications of social robots is provided in this paper. In addition, the latest research progress in our institute is presented, i.e., multi-party interaction, gesture recognition, affective computing, and attention capture. All the research and applications demonstrate that social robots are good assistive robots for people with special needs.])>