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EXPECTED APPLICATION FIELD FOR HOME USE
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Expected Application Field General Assistance Care, Welfare Security
at Home ( 40% ) ( 34%) ( 19% )

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DO NOT LIKE THE ROBOTS SUCH AS ;
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General Features Too Emotional Touching body at care in Difficult to use
( 53% ) toilet.bath (33%) ( 3% )
External Shape Machine without cover Animal type Human type
(15%) (15%) ( 13%)

3. HEALTHCARE PARTNER ROBOT SYSTEM

As mentioned before, the main role of "Healthcare Partner Robot" is to cover the major part of" A BIT
OF CARE" requests mainly from "Light Users", while absence of helpers, or in the night. Figure 3.
shows the general view of "Healthcare Partner Robot".

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Figure 3. General View of "Healthcare Partner Robot" Figure 4. An Example of Healthcare Menu

3.1 Main Components of System

(1) A touchpanel is used as Human Machine Interface, selecting menu on the touch screen to execute
the menu by robot and related equipments, as shown in Figure 4.
(2) A voice recognition software is used to recognize the user made command from the pre-registered
users, and execute the related macro-operation.
(3) Robot hardware usually has several sensors, such as vision, infra-red, mechanical switch for
security, for interaction to external event[6].
(4) The bio-metric sensors, are located either close to the person to be cared or attached on the robot
hardware.