TEDxGeorgiaTech - Jenay Beer - Meet Your Grandparents' Assistant: The Domesticated Robot
Publication/Creation Date
May 21 2012Description
Jenay Beer is a PhD student in Engineering Psychology at Georgia Institute of Technology. In this TEDx lecture, she discusses the future of aging in the context of technology and robotics. Using Willow Garage's PR2 robot as an example, she and her colleagues interviewed older adults in order to determine potential uses for personal robots in a home environment, such as task assistance and medication delivery.Augments
Moving,
Manipulating,
Grabbing,
Grasping,
Holding,
Carrying,
Assisting,
Helping,
Caring,
Aging,
Locating,
Lifting,
Delivering,
IdentifyingSource
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ppyWqFdc1Q
Date archived
August 15 2018Last edited
July 5 2021