LECABot, mini robot companion for elderly
Aging population has brought about a significant social problem for modern day society. Due to the advancement of healthcare, people tend to live longer than ever before. As the aging population problem worsens, the amount of elderly living alone has seen an all time high. Living alone has its o...
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Nanyang Technological University
2020
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138033 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
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| Summary: | Aging population has brought about a significant social problem for modern
day society. Due to the advancement of healthcare, people tend to live longer
than ever before. As the aging population problem worsens, the amount of
elderly living alone has seen an all time high.
Living alone has its own set of implications on an individual’s physical well
being and mental health such as development of chronic diseases and mental
illnesses due to loneliness. With technology evolving daily to become more
accessible and user-friendly to the general public, the relevance of technology
being implemented in our day to day lives has become more applicable.
Robot companions leverages the power of technology to tackle the issue
of loneliness by providing companionship for the elderly. There are various
examples of elderly robot companions currently available in the market but they
are either using proprietary technology or not cost-friendly to be implemented in
a large scale environment.
LECABot (also known as Lifelong Elderly Companion Assistant Bot)
aims to set a standard by using efficient and affordable hardware bundled with
open-source and easy to understand software so that every elderly would have
access to a robot companion and help in the cause of combating loneliness.
Using mBot and Raspberry Pi 3 B+, features include
• Google Assistant to allow voice interaction with the elderly
• mBot to connect and control the various hardware components of the robot
• OpenCV to enable facial recognition and active tracking of elderly |
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