Multi-purpose dexterity tele-operation robot for remote working and healthcare

2019冠状病毒病大流行给社会和行业带来了独特的挑战；如何在保持社会距离和旅行限制的情况下保护生命、开放经济并确保医疗保健部门发挥作用。这些挑战的形式包括国内生产总值可能大幅下降，由于缺乏关键检查和维护任务的现场专业人员而对英国基础设施构成威胁，在物理工作环境中难以保持社会距离，以及由于自我隔离的医疗保健专业人员而导致人员短缺。扩展机器人（ER）的目标是开发、扩展和商业化基于云的、远程操作的、高度灵巧的机器人系统，将远程工作扩展到物理领域。该系统将以可承受的价格提供一种高效的通用解决方案，允许在危机期间在广泛的部门大规模采用。这将提高安全性和操作效率，并将其带入正常运营。ER的远程操作机器人系统提供：*用户硬件-使用消费者虚拟现实（VR）设备的低成本可扩展解决方案。*用户界面-直观和身临其境的用户界面，非专业用户操作提供“真实世界”的体验。*机器人机械手-灵巧（6度运动）和强大的远程操作，通过增强人类的智能。*远程工作-用户可以通过互联网云服务器从家里操作。该系统的目的是帮助用户和增强人的能力，而不是取代人的交互。这对于维持有效的工作实践是至关重要的。目前的概念原型引起了电信基础设施维护行业的兴趣，并正在进行一项开发计划，该计划将于2020年4月获得种子资金。管理团队与公用事业和电信部门有着密切的联系，但存在许多其他用例，例如：*允许免疫抑制的医疗保健专业人员在家中远程执行任务，防止污染。*自我隔离的检查和维护专业人员，为关键基础设施站点提供“实践专业知识”。这笔拨款将用于改进核心技术，寻求医疗保健行业的试验和商业案例；一个案例研究，将推动大规模生产系统在多个应用中的大规模实现。

The COVID-19 pandemic presents a unique challenge for society and industry; how to protect lives, open up the economy and ensure a functioning healthcare sector whilst social distancing and restrictions on travel remain. These challenges come in the form of a potential significant drop in GDP, threats to UK infrastructure due to lack of in-situ professionals for critical inspection and maintenance tasks, difficulties maintaining social distance in physical work environments and staff shortage due to self-isolating healthcare professionals.Extend Robotics' (ER) aim is to develop, scale and commercialize a cloud-based, teleoperated, highly dexterous robotic system which will extend remote working into the physical domain. The system will offer a highly effective universal solution at an affordable price point allowing massive adoption across a wide range of sectors during the crisis. This will result in improved safety and operating efficiencies that will be carried forward into normal operations.ER's remotely operated robotic system offers:* USER HARDWEAR - Low-cost scalable solution, using consumer Virtual Reality (VR) equipment.* USER INTERFACE - Intuitive and immersive user interface for non-expert users to operate offering "real world" experience.* ROBOTIC MANIPULATOR - Dexterous (6 degrees of movement) and robust teleoperation by augmenting human intelligence.* REMOTE WORKING - Users can operate from home over internet cloud servers.The aim of the system is to aid the user and augment human capability, not replace human interaction. This is critical in maintaining efficient working practices. The current concept prototype garnered interest in the telecom infrastructure maintenance sector with an ongoing development plan which lead to seed funding in April 2020\. The management team has strong connections with the utility and telecommunications sector, but many other use cases exist such as:* Allowing immunosuppressed healthcare professionals to remotely perform tasks from home preventing contamination.* Self-isolating inspection and maintenance professionals providing "hands-on expertise" to critical infrastructure sites.This grant will be used to improve the core technology, seek trials and business cases in the healthcare sector; a case study that will drive a larger scale implementation a for mass production system in multiple applications.