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“#An autonomous forearm-supported walker to assist patients in nursing facilities<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Over the past few decades, roboticists have developed systems for a variety of real-world settings, including healthcare facilities. Among their many possible uses in healthcare, robots could help to assist patients in nursing homes or hospitals; for instance, administering medication, food or helping patients to walk.<\/p>\n

Researchers at Hokkaido University in Japan have recently developed an innovative autonomous system that can serve as a walking aid for patients in nursing facilities or hospitals. This robotic medical walker, presented in a paper published in SpringerLink’s Artificial Life and Robotics<\/i> journal, does not require any intervention from nurses and caregivers, as it can autonomously locate patients and app<\/a>roach them when they wish to go for a walk or move to a different place within their healthcare facility.<\/p>\n

“If a patient is able to walk using a walker, doctors typically recommend walkers over wheelchairs as a tool to perform moderate exercise in nursing facilities,” Yuto Mori, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told TechXplore. “To use a walker, however, caregivers must first carry it to the patient, which can be a burden on caregivers and can reduce the patients’ sense of autonomy. The main purpose of our research was to solve this problem by creating a robotic walking system that could be used by those in nursing facilities or other healthcare settings without any intervention from caregivers.”<\/p>\n


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