New Normal
The Problem
We need technologies that extend the efficacy of our healthcare workers, while protecting against the transmission of pathogens. This is a priority for our medical institutions now and will continue to be so into the distant future.
Current medical robots do not have the advanced AI systems to understand a patient’s state and respond in a flexible yet appropriate manner, engage patients intuitively and emotionally with a humanlike presence or converse fluidly to effectively exchange medical information.
This complex problem is solvable with right approach.
This complex problem is solvable with right approach.
The Problem
We need technologies that extend the efficacy of our healthcare workers, while protecting against the transmission of pathogens. This is a priority for our medical institutions now and will continue to be so into the distant future.
Current medical robots do not have the advanced AI systems to understand a patient’s state and respond in a flexible yet appropriate manner, engage patients intuitively and emotionally with a humanlike presence or converse fluidly to effectively exchange medical information.
The Grace aims to be a Doctor’s best friend.
Faster Bot Evolution
Given an aging world population combined with an increasing shortage of physicians and healthcare personnel, robots will be a growing presence in healthcare systems worldwide.
Robots attract the attention of major healthcare providers due to their ability to reduce the cost of care, offload menial tasks from human personnel, improve the accuracy of repetitive tasks, and to enable enhanced forms of therapy and rehabilitation, among other use cases.
Unfortunately, currently available medical robots are not able to effectively conduct human-like face-to-face communication, and lack both an engaging social presence and the intelligence to understand a patient’s communications in the context of their medical situation.
The Solution
Any viable solution requires highly communicative proxies for healthcare workers, with physical properties well-correlated to a human’s natural face-to-face communications. High-verisimilitude robots can be especially useful by providing an emotional connection with the patient, serving as an avatar telepresence for remote healthcare workers, and an interface for human-AI interactions that fulfill critical tasks and relieve overworked healthcare staff.
No Rolling Kiosks
Awakening’s social robots are intelligent, perceptive machines with human-like facial expressions and sensitivity to human emotions.
Grace will provide an unparalleled combination of robotic patience, knowledge and analytical ability with a human-like capacity for connection and compassion. Esteemed hospital groups in China, Hong Kong, and Korea, are currently considering Grace’s integration proposals for an initial test of the product in their facilities.
These breakthrough mobile healthcare robots are specially designed to work in hospitals and extended care facilities, to provide social and information functions, and to move freely around the relevant indoor environments.
Grace can be fully autonomous AI-controlled or remotely operated by humans, providing an unprecedented telepresence solution Grace excels in forming emotional connections with patients, provide social and cognitive stimulation, do basic health monitoring, give and obtain information using contextually aware natural language dialogue.
In an elder-care context, Grace can perform the following:
- Provide reminders and instructions for activities of daily life and safety
- Assist in daily tasks
- Monitor behavior and health
- Provide companionship, entertainment, reminiscence and social contact
- Collect large amounts of data about subjects and their environment, such as record: sleep, exercise, persons entering patient spaces and appointments
- With permission and proper attention to security and data sovereignty, patient communications may be continuously recorded and utilized
- Serve as exercise and mind coaches, helping the elderly perform exercises and brain-teaser activities
The Opportunity
The emerging opportunity in the medical social robotics market is growing by leaps and bounds and is there for the taking. Awakening can seize this opportunity based on deployment of
already existing robotics and AI technology.
Awakening first step is to provide a powerful response to the feelings of loneliness or isolation many elderly people experience. The elderly can build a daily relationship, filling the gaps
between visits from family and medical staff.
Elderly Care is only one of many opportunities for Awakening. The ability to harvest a vast amount of secure and personalized biodata will lead to developing early warning response and treatments for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Plans are afoot to address the features for Grace to serve as the clinic and hospital receptionists – and there is much more to come.
The human-like AI-powered medical robotics market is ready to explode!
The human-like AI-powered medical robotics market is ready to explode!
The Opportunity
The emerging opportunity in the medical social robotics market is growing by leaps and bounds and is there for the taking. Awakening can seize this opportunity based on deployment of already existing robotics and AI technology.
Awakening first step is to provide a powerful response to the feelings of loneliness or isolation many elderly people experience. The elderly can build a daily relationship, filling the gaps between visits from family and medical staff.
Elderly Care is only one of many opportunities for Awakening. The ability to harvest a vast amount of secure and personalized biodata will lead to developing early warning response and treatments for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Plans are afoot to address the features for Grace to serve as the clinic and hospital receptionists – and there is much more to come.
Product Features
The facial expressions produced by Grace are enabled by Hanson’s patented flesh-like Frubber™ material, renowned for developing the most lifelike robotic faces, Hanson brings numerous innovations to bear on the simulation of human faces. As a fluid-filled cellular matrix of elastomer, Frubber closely matches the physics of human facial living soft tissues.
These techniques are combined to simulate a variety of living soft-tissue properties. Grace uses Hanson’s expression mechanisms, which simulate the actions of all 48 human facial muscles for a full range of natural facial expressions and SNET software allows for custom control of the motorized actions in a test environment.
The unique Grace Bot facial expression technology combined with top rank AI will feature:
- Fully expressive face and endearing open chat
- Gestural arms, compliant, people safe (not for grasping)
- Localized movement and touchscreen on torso
- Self-navigating base with self-charging station (3 hours operations)
- Diverse sensors: cameras eyes, 3D sensing on torso, 360 cameras and thermal sensors and proximity sensing
- Recognizes people and builds upon details of prior conversations
- Medical device for cognitive or emotional diagnostics
- Tracking biodata (temperature, blood pressure, etc.)
- Synergistic with human health professionals, delivers reports
- Computing power: quad-core, 8-thread mobile computer on Ubuntu, at least 32 gigs memory, dedicated GPU, LAN server wirelessly interfaced, powerful processing, cloud connection