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Disability robot : ウィキペディア英語版 | Disability robot
A disability robot is a robot designed to help people who have physical disabilities that impede with daily tasks. The field of expertise that creates such robots is called "disability robotics". ==Research== In 1988 the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research, NIDRR, awarded Gaulladet University a grant for the project “Robotic finger spelling hand for communication and access to text by deaf-blind persons.” Researchers at the University developed and tested a robotic hand. Although it was never commercialized the concept is relevant for current and future research.〔Jaeger, Robert J. 2006. "Rehabilitation robotics research at the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research."Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development, August. xvii-xx. Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed April 8, 2013).〕 Since this grant, many others have been written. NIDRR funded research appears to be moving from the fabrication of robotic arms that can be used by disabled persons to perform daily activities, to developing robotics that assist with therapy in the hopes of achieving long-term performance gains. If there is success in development of robotics, these mass-marketed products could assist tomorrow’s longer-living elderly individuals enough to postpone nursing home stays. "Jim Osborn, executive director of the Quality of Life Technology Center, recently told a gathering of long-term care providers that if such advances could delay all nursing home admissions by a month, societal savings could be $1 billion monthly."〔 Shortage of both paid personal assistants and available family members makes artificial assistance a necessity.
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