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Development of a Risk Assessment Assistance Tool for Robotic Care Devices
Keiko Homma1, Osamu Matsumoto1
1Robot Innovation Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
|September 7, 2017
Abstract:
Aiming to eliminate a labor shortage caused by the aging of society, many kinds of service robots are under development. Nursing care for the elderly is considered as a typical application of service robots, especially in Japan. Elderly care robots or robotic care device must be designed with safety, but not a few manufacturers are inexperienced in designing and manufacturing them on the basis of safety. In this paper, we introduce a risk assessment assistance tool for robotic care device targeted for inexperienced manufacturers of risk assessment.