Dancing Robot for Aged Care Residents
Friday, 18 December, 2015
A humanoid robot standing 57cm high and weighing just 7kg will be joining Perth aged care residents at Brightwater’s Madeley facility for a 12 month trial. Zora is a socialisation robot specifically programmed to provide cognitively and physically stimulating activities activities such as the hosting of exercise and dance classes, book and news reading, joke telling and music classes and have one-on-one interactions with residents.
Zora is operated with a tablet, and has inbuilt cameras, speakers and microphones and is equipped with speech recognition and voice synthesis in 19 languages. She was developed using French hardware and Belgian software from QMBT, with whom Brightwater Care Group has formed a research alliance, alongwith WA medical technology leader Surgical Realities.
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