CareBot™ - How it works..
A CareBot™ MSR is built on a BaseBot™ using GeckoNav™, GeckoChat™, and GeckoTrak™ to perform timely and cost effective duties for care givers to better care for their care receivers. GeckoZap™ is used by the support personnel to perform maintenance on the CareBot™. The Personal Assistance discussion can be accessed here.
GeckoNav™, GeckoChat™ and GeckoTrak™ are primary GeckoSavants. GeckoNav™ is responsible for all fully autonomous maneuvering, such as avoiding dynamic and/or static obstacles, running errands and patrolling. GeckoChat™ is responsible for interaction with the care-receiver such as answering questions, assisting with daily routines and reminders, and responding to other verbal commands. GeckoTrak™, which is mostly transparent to the user, enables the CareBot™ to maintain proximity to the care receiver using sensor fusion. The CareBot™ is an Internet appliance that is accessible for remote video/audio monitoring and telepresence.
The elderly frequently endure loneliness and/or loss of independence when living in nursing homes or other assisted living facilities. This new type of remote medical monitoring system, a CareBot™, will postpone, if not eliminate that trauma to them. Their families can now better manage the difficult decisions regarding the independence they allow their now dependent parent while minimizing the risk the adult care giver is willing to assume for a prudent level of independence for their now reliant parent.
Like an automobile, mobile robots are made from steel, aluminum, plastic and electronics, yet with ten to twenty times the amount of software running. The CareBot™ has an aluminum frame, plastic shroud, two independently driven wheels, multiple sensor systems, microprocessors and several onboard computers connected in a local area network (LAN).