Can Intuitive Robot ElliQ Help Older People Fight Social Insulation?
[Netease smart news April 5 news] When you want to design robots to help people, you may think of robots to take care of the elderly or take on customer service roles, such as Pepper, Nao and Hasbro's companion service robot. Recently, robots have become popular candidates for sexual partners or romantic partners.
A start-up company from Israel called Intuition Robotics is launching an interesting product called ElliQ's new artificial intelligence partner designed to keep seniors active and focused to reduce the solitude of seniors. sense. Dor Skuler, co-founder and CEO of Intuition Robotics, recently conducted an interview and disclosed more details about ElliQ.
Schulk explained the reason for the launch of ElliQ: “We live longer and we are healthier at the same time. 90% of seniors want to live in their own home, and during this time they still have strong Cognitive ability, which is still independent, does not require supplementary care in life.On the contrary, young people are increasingly away from their parents’ lifestyles and their busy lives are very dependent on technology.About 30% to 60% of older people think they are lonely. , which usually means that the real number may be higher."
In terms of functionality, ElliQ may be closer to Alexa than Pepper, because Intuition Robotics is using cognitive computing, human-robot interaction, and cloud robotics to develop robotic capabilities, including proactively recommending numbers and physical activity to the owner. Stay active and stay in touch with family, friends and life. This robot provides an access for older people so that they can contact their families.
As Schulker pointed out: "Our improvements to robots are actually simplifying the way old people connect with their family. If you look at a typical family, we are all on Facebook Messenger. We share it. Some messages, pictures, and Other content, but the elderly parents did not participate in discussions. Teenagers do not want to call their grandparents. What they like to do is to share a selfie and find links related to the TED talk. They may send an emoji or Sending text messages and using their past communication methods to communicate is just now being done at Messenger, so the first thing we created was essentially a virtual chatbot that made it easy for family members to contact their grandmother. This is very intuitive. They don't need to work on texts and don't need to unlock the phone. They don't need to try to look at the little letters and don't need to click on anything with their fingers. We just tell them: 'Hey, this is you New photos of granddaughter, do you want to see it?'If she promised, we can show her photos if Would like to comment, we will record a message and send it out. Suddenly, she became part of the conversation. She had the opportunity to get content, rather than participate in weekly discussions embarrassment, she is still part of the family. "
This is a bit like taking old relatives home, and they are content to sit and watch and interact with their families. ElliQ can also take more aggressive actions, unlike Alexa and Siri who need to wait for users to prompt them. Skulk said: "Overall, older adults will become passive rather than proactive. They tend to stick to routines, and often do not discover and add new things and new capabilities in everyday life. If you ask them something related to them, they will probably promise you.(This means you have to be very responsible, only recommend the right thing, never to take advantage of it.) So basically, ElliQ has very Intelligent sensors can understand what is happening in the home and remind the elderly what they should do. For example: 'Hey, it's fine today. Why don't you go for a walk?' It also reminds you to take medicine and keep an appointment. It may remind you in the digital world: 'Do you want to hear Frank Sinatra's song?' Or is this a great TED talk you might want to hear?
Unique aesthetic
ElliQ's innovative design is in collaboration with Yves Béhar, founder and chief designer of award-winning industrial design company Fuseproject. ElliQ is made up of two separate elements: ElliQ, the social director who shows human features through actions such as action, speech, sound and light. LED light displays and a variety of actions are used to convey subtle emotional expressions, giving the device a friendly and warm personality.
The second element consists of a single screen that allows the user to view the content of the selected location. Not every day you have to talk to the CEO of a startup that is the first gerontologist to be hired. Other involved in the project were Apple’s former senior vice president of technology, Don Norman, Intel senior vice president Amir Faintuch, and cognitive computing, HRI, machine intelligence, and robotics. Top academic experts.
Scholk explained that some of their initial assumptions about robots were incorrect: “We think that each of us has created an environment where the elderly need to take care of ElliQ, and we found that this is not the case. You can do the best. The thing is to help people feel that they are not alone at home, and we worry that older people don’t want to talk to machines, especially when I’m sitting in a room full of old people and show them how I’m using Siri. I may seem weird, but we have found that they are absolutely willing to talk to machines. Over time, they increasingly see them as entities rather than devices."
ElliQ is currently exhibiting at the Design Museum in London. In February of this year, Intuition Robotics will launch a pilot project at the senior home in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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