Lifting robot assistants and smart-room infrastructure for collaborative patient handling and rehabilitation

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Arjo and Université de Sherbrooke are partnering to develop collaborative-robotic technologies for the next generation of transfer devices used in hospitals and long-term care units. The goal of this Alliance project is to develop lifting robot assistants and an eco-system of devices for a smart hospital room concept that would release caregivers of time-consuming, low-value tasks and empower patients with mobility assistance features. The proposed assistance technology aims to address these two societal problems: 1) improving the caregivers' health and work-conditions with assistance scheme limiting the physical efforts during patient transfers and 2) improving the patients' care quality by facilitating occasions for them to move out of their bed.