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

Arjo和Sherbrooke大学正在合作开发协作机器人技术，用于医院和长期护理单元中使用的下一代传输设备。该联盟项目的目标是开发举重机器人助手和智能病房概念的设备生态系统，使照顾者摆脱耗时、低价值的任务，并为患者提供移动辅助功能。拟议的援助技术旨在解决这两个社会问题：1)通过援助计划限制病人转移过程中的体力劳动，改善照顾者的健康和工作条件；2)通过便利病人下床的机会来提高病人的护理质量。

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.