Showing posts with label UBot-5. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UBot-5. Show all posts

Monday, March 25, 2013

UBot-5, a robot therapist

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We love robots. These little helpers metal are extremely useful and are able to do all sorts of tasks. For here we have seen the wonders of industry robotics in several occasions, so I know there are robots to perform almost any task you can think of. In this case, we have to  UBot-5, a kind of robot therapist .
UBot-5 is a humanoid robot the size of a child has some kind of arms with clips on the ends and also has a screen where the head would go, as you can see in the picture. Recent studies have shown that robots can sometimes turn into very good therapists, and have one of these for certain therapies are good for patients.
A man aged 72 with certain disabilities and physical difficulties was an extensive therapy several weeks with said robot. During this time he held various arm movements exercises and word games. Finally, thanks to UBot-5, was improved slightly moving his own arms and also scored better verbal expression.
This makes it clear that robots are undoubtedly extremely useful and can be used in virtually any area.