RIBA the Robot Nurse

[kurohinge1]

Japanese scientists develop teddy bear-shaped nurse robot

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Japanese scientists have developed a robot that looks like a huge, happy teddy bear and is designed to lift hospital patients in and out of their wheelchairs and beds.

Named RIBA - short for Robot for Interactive Body Assistance - the android was developed by the government-run Riken research institute and could be deployed in hospitals and retirement homes within three years.

"We have developed RIBA because we want to help caregivers when they are required to transfer patients between hospital beds and wheelchairs," said Dr. Toshiharu Mukai, who heads the research team.

Development took two years and the robot is able to lift a weight of 61 kg on its foam padded arms. . . more

So you shouldn't expect to be fed in the future J-hospitals until you're under the 61kg.

[Midwinter]

[quote="kurohinge1"]

So you shouldn't expect to be fed in the future J-hospitals until you're under the 61kg.

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Awww fuck, unless these robots can work in heavy lifting squads then I guess I'm screwed. My arse alone is at least 61kgs of pure man

[leitmotiv]

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Creepy.....why do I project from this picture a blood-spattered white bear-robot, human entrails draped across the arms, after it goes berserk in the middle of bingo night from a programming error?

Is it just me?

[BO-SENSEI]

Anything to keep those damn Philippino from taking care of our revered elderly.

[Coligny]

Could have been soooo much worse...

[Coligny]

Anything to keep those damn Philippino from taking care of our revered elderly.

Take knows aboot sockpuppet ?

Where is the weurld coming to...

[kurohinge1]

Could have been soooo much worse...

Or better . . . how about these bad boys:

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And, of course, Robottina, for sponge baths.

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[sillygirl]

Has this been posted already?

http://www.reghardware.com/2010/11/23/60_year_old_robot/

[Marked Trail]

"Jukusui Kun" the Robotic bear pillow stops snoring and prevents Sleep Apnea Syndrome by pawing and attacking users if they snore in their sleep.

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More info at:
http://www.gizmag.com/jukusui-kun-robotic-pillow-stop-snoring/20521/

[Taro Toporific]

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Abe Cabinet moving toward promoting Nursing robots for elderly
halojepang.com (Kyodo Press) 12 June 2013
...Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government has allocated 2.39 billion yen in the budget for fiscal 2013 to help develop nursing care robots and spread their use. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry chose last month 24 companies that will receive subsidies covering half to two-thirds of the cost of developing what it calls "nursing care robot equipment."
More...

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Just make damn sure he's unplugged before the grandkids come over to visit.

[Taro Toporific]

Abe Cabinet moving toward promoting Nursing robots for elderly
halojepang.com (Kyodo Press) 12 June 2013
...Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government has allocated 2.39 billion yen in the budget for fiscal 2013 to help develop nursing care robots and spread their use. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry chose last month 24 companies that will receive subsidies covering half to two-thirds of the cost of developing what it calls "nursing care robot equipment."
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Pedo-Bear is back, and he wants granny!

Scientists of the RIKEN research institute have released a new version of their nursing care robot, “ROBEAR.”
According to RIKEN’s press release of February 23rd:
ROBEAR can performing tasks such as lifting a patient from a bed or wheelchair and, "will provide impetus for research on the creation of robots that can supplement Japan’s need for new approaches to care-giving."

Ri-i-i-ight---Granny is gonna love this. ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ

[Taro Toporific]

A “Suicide Bear”? Japanese Invention Lets You Choose Suffocation, Asphyxia or Lethal Injection
Catholic Channel — Seasons of Grace | May 6, 2015
How would you prefer to die: By lethal injection? suffocation? helium asphyxia?
Japanese engineers are trying to give you a choice. A research team has developed “SeppuKuma” (translation: “Suicide Bear”), an assisted suicide support robot which smiles like an innocent cartoon character while strangling, hugging or kissing a patient until he or she is dead.
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Japan Engineers Design Robotic Bear to aid in Assisted Suicide
IFLScience | 5 February 2015
…JSDD-Orient Industry Collaboration Center for Human-Interactive Robotics Research in the Bunkyo Ward of Tokyo has designed an assisted suicide support robot with the face of an innocent, loveable cartoon-like bear to aid patients in self-euthanasia named SeppuKuma.
SeppuKuma, which loosely translates to “Suicide Bear” has robotic arms that are able to carry up to 80kg of weight, hands that are powerful enough to crush human bone...
... SeppuKuma also offers 23 very different methods one can choose to end their life, including Everlasting Sleep (lethal injection), Pillow Kisses (suffocation), Peaceful Breath (helium asphyxia) and Sleepy time Hug which is where the robotic bear strangles its partner until their pulse stops for 15 minutes. All of these attributes enable the SeppuKuma to give it’s patient the power to choose how they get to end their own life.
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Japanese Engineers Design Robotic Bear to Aid in Assisted Suicide: SeppuKuma
snopes.com | May 5, 2015
False

[Mike Oxlong]

South Korea Best Japan & Other Rivals In Robot Challenge

– South Korean scientists carried home the $2 million top prize
Saturday after their robot triumphed in a disaster-response challenge inspired by the
2011 triple meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.

Team KAIST and its DRC-Hubo robot took the honor ahead of Team IHMC Robotics and
Tartan Rescue, both from the United States, at the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC)
after a two-day competition in California.

The runners-up win $1 million and $500,000, respectively, in a field of more than 20
competitors.

But it is about more than just the money, with the teams also winning the kudos of
triumphing after a three-year robotics contest organized by the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which commissions advanced research for the U.S.
Defense Department.

Over the two days, each robot had two chances to compete on an obstacle course
comprising eight tasks, including driving, going through a door, opening a valve,
punching through a wall and dealing with rubble and stairs.

The challenges facing them in Pomona, just east of Los Angeles, were designed
specifically with Fukushima in mind and were meant to simulate conditions similar to the
disaster at the nuclear plant.

In all, 24 mostly human-shaped robots and their teams — 12 from the United States, five
from Japan, three from South Korea, two from Germany and one each from Italy and
Hong Kong — won through to the finals.

But it was Team KAIST’s latest version of its HUBO — “HUmanoid roBOt” — that
emerged victorious, beating its competitors from the United States to the $2 million
paycheck.

All three scored eight points but HUBO was six minutes ahead of the Running Man
(Atlas) robot from IHMC Robotics and over 10 minutes quicker than Tartan Rescue’s
CHIMP.

HUBO has been developed since 2002 and weighs 80 kg (175 pounds), while standing
180 cm (70 inches) tall.

The team — from the South Korean city of Daejeon — says the robot’s “uniqueness” is
that it can transform from a standing position to a kneeling one designed for wheeled and
fast motion.

Not all competitors were so successful, with several malfunctioning or taking a clattering
tumble.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/0 ... challenge/

[Coligny]

since even a roomba could do better than a japanese robot, no big surprise here...

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more curious aboot a detailed result apparently too embarrassing to post...