Robotics as aid within welfare
Description
This diploma assignment is in collaboration with Mektron and deals primarily with welfare technology with robot as aid. My contact person in Mektron, Egil Utheim has for several years been working on the development of a robot shower. This is intended as an aid for the disabled and for persons in rehabilitation. Egil wants to help elderly and other disabled people to more easily handle personal hygiene on their own. His goal is to get more disabled to master the most intimate part of the shower sequence on its own with the help of a robotic arm. In addition to improve dignity, another gain is that the person stays active and self-functioning over a longer period.