ROBO

ROBOT IN HUMAN SOCIAL LIFE

school

Robotics at school has three main applications, Robotic kits, Virtual tutors, and teacher assistants.


robot kits

Robot kits, such as Lego Mindstorms Robot BotBrain or education, help children to learn about mathematics, physics programming, and electronics.

Further information: FIRST Robotics Competition

Robotics have also been introduced into the lives of elementary and high school students with the company FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). Organization is the foundation for the FIRST Robotics Competition, FIRST LEGO League, Junior FIRST LEGO League, and FIRST Tech Challenge competitions.

virtual tutor

Virtual Tutor sort embodied agent that helps children to do homework, for example, in a peer to peer basis.

teacher assistants

Robot as an assistant teacher let the children to be more assertive during the class and get more motivated. South Korea is the first country to run a program to have a robot in every school.

  Health

Robots in healthcare have two main functions. Those who help individuals, such as people with diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, and those which aid in the overall systems such as pharmacies and hospitals.

Home automation for the elderly and disabled Robots FRIEND-The Care Giving. Robots have developed over time from simple basic robotic assistants, such as the Handy 1, through semi-autonomous robots, such as FRIEND which can assist the elderly and disabled people with tasks .Population aging in many countries, especially Japan, meaning that there are an increasing number of parents to care for, but young people are relatively less to take care of them. Humans make the best caregivers, but where they are unavailable, robots are introduced gradually,]

FRIEND is a semi-autonomous robot designed to support disabled and elderly people in the daily activities of their lives, such as preparing and serving  allows patients who are paraplegic, have muscle diseases or serious paralysis (due to strokes etc.), to perform tasks without help from other people like therapists or nursing staff