Recent Press Releases
- ... Elder Care Robot Trials Result in More Japanese Interest
March 11, 2010 - ... Representative Comments on Japanese Interest in Elder Care Robot Trials
March 5, 2010 - ... Discuss Expansion Capabilities of CareBots™ at "Mobile Robots in Motion" Conference
March 3, 2010 - ... Responds to Heightened Japanese Interest in Mobile Robots
February 24, 2010
Automatic self navigation of a CareBot, which is approximately twenty inches in diameter, traverses three twenty-four inch wide doorways and a narrow hallway in an old 1954 home. This completely hands off mobile robot navigation uses GeckoNav™ without the aid of a predefined, detailed map. You will see the speed of the robot adapt to its surroundings: slowing for tight quarters, speeding up when in open space. View more videos on our YouTube Channel.
Mobile Service Robot performing automatic self navigation within a loose crowd, filmed at Lasell College's "Technology Trends in Eldercare" Conference. View more videos on our YouTube Channel.
New Videos from Conference
Added over 20 videos and 80 pictures from our "Mobile Robots in Motion" conference held November 4-5. These videos build on our already extensive collection of over 700 pictures and 70 videos from past events and demos.
Recent Related Articles
- Breakthrough Technology Alert
The $66 Billion Robotics Revolution
- Excerpted from the February, 2010 Issue - Forbes.com Silicon Stethoscopes: Telepresence technologies and robotics promise another way to ease future health care burdens. - September 17, 2009
By Courtney Boyd Myers
In the Consumer Market
Our focus is family care for the elderly, chronically ill, and children. What does it do? Let’s you remotely see how they are doing using the onboard wireless webcam and ability to automatically follow Grandma or little Johnny. Should Grandma, or Johnny, not respond to our CareBot’s™ inquiries, you, or other designated caregivers would be contacted by GeckoChat™ immediately by phone. More...
In the Professional Healthcare Market
Our focus is making nurses more efficient and productive with less work by them. What’s it do? Enables nurses to video conference doctors in for more timely diagnosis of patients while carrying all the specialized supplies and equipment the IV or wound care nursing specialists might need. At night the MSR can deliver bed pans, medications, even take vital signs, etc. to those in need while the night shift nurses are busy with a crisis on their wing or floor. More...
In the Commercial Security Market
Our focus is dramatically improving surveillance in our post 9/11 world at lower cost and greater efficacy than human guards. For example, human guards would tire quickly hauling WMD detection systems. Our SecurityBot™ MSR’s do not. More...
In the Defense Industry
Our MSR’s can explore urban dwellings while looking for human inhabitants --automatically-- without any human invention or control. This can save lives by placing our troops back one step from an unforeseen ambush. More...