EMERGENCE
Tackling Frailty: Facilitating the Emergence of Healthcare Robots from Labs into Service
Announcement 09/05/2023
We will be running a further online co-creation methodology workshop in relation to our second funding call via the Robotics for Frailty Challenge on Friday 9th June, 2023 (09:00-13:30). Registrations for the event are now open.
Register for our online co-creation methodology workshop
Emergence Project Vision
The network will facilitate the creation of a sustainable healthcare robotics eco-system connecting researchers, industry and healthcare providers, in order to build the infrastructure and systems to drive world-class advances in healthcare robotics research and development to support people living with frailty within communities in the UK.
Why Frailty?
Individuals with frailty have different needs but, commonly, assistance is needed in activities related to mobility, self-care and domestic life, social activites and relationships. Healthcare robots are increasingly recognised as solutions in helping people improve independent living, by having the ability to offer physical assistance as well as supporting complex self-management and healthcare tasks when integrated with patient data.
Why Robotics?
Individuals with frailty experience changes in their conditions over time, both in the longer term and the shorter term. Traditional assistive technologies struggle to adapt to these changes and are typically abandoned by their users as a result. Robotic solutions can be more easily personalised and developed to sense changes in behaviour and environment, draw inferences and make decisions in order to be able to adapt how support is delivered.
Living Lab Test Beds
To enable the design and evaluation of healthcare robotic solutions, the network will utilise living lab test beds. Funded feasibility studies will drive co-designed, high-quality research that will lead to technologies capable of transforming community health and care.
Cobot Maker Space
University of Nottingham
University of Nottingham
Founded by the Smart Products Beacon at the University of Nottingham, the Cobot Maker Space offers a welcoming environment to create innovative technology in a space to connect and collaborate with an interdisciplinary group of researchers.
National Robotarium
Heriot-Watt University
Heriot-Watt University
The National Robotarium is a world-leading centre for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, creating innovative solutions to global challenges. Pioneering research moves rapidly from laboratory to market, developing skilled visionaries and delivering substantial benefits for society.
Health Innovation South East Scotland
Midlothian Test Bed
Midlothian Test Bed
Health Innovation South East Scotland (HISES) is an Innovation Test Bed set up by the Scottish Government Chief Scientists’ Office which forms part of national network created to deliver the Government’s vision to utilise the innovation process to deliver a healthier and wealthier nation for the future.
Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC)
Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield Hallam University
The AWRC is the centrepiece of the Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park, dedicated to improving health and wellbeing through movement offering world-class research and design through state-of-the-art facilities and wide-ranging academic expertise.
HomeLab
University of Sheffield
University of Sheffield
Situated within the Centre for Assistive Technology and Connected Healthcare (CATCH), the Home Lab acts as a link between research teams and end users, bringing patients, carers, clinicians, healthcare professionals, researchers and industry into the research environment to co-create, catalyse and accelerate the translation of research into practical solutions and real-world products.
Robot House
University of Hertfordshire
University of Hertfordshire
The Robot House is a four-bedroom home that has been adapted into a unique research facility for human-robot interaction. It is equipped with the latest generation of robotics platforms, including state-of-the-art care robots for assisted living used by researchers to explore new ways to make collaboration between robots and humans more effective.
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