Development of rehabilitative multimodal interactive pet robot for elderly residents

• Main Authors: Sheba, Jaichandar Kulandaidaasan, Phuc, Le Tan, Salman, Adnan Ahmed, Kumar, Sampath, Elara, Mohan Rajesh, Martínez-García, Edgar
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering; Therapeutic Pet Robots; Bio-inspired Robots
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/89269; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/46158
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The ongoing development in robotics has enabled socially interactive robots (SIR) to contribute towards elderly care. Various studies on using therapeutic robots in health care for elderly people conducted for the last decade have indicated the effectiveness of these methods. To capture and retain a...