Robots and assistive technologies
summary
Robotics for assisted living shows concrete outcomes: a deployed Aby companion robot operating at Presbyterian Village since December 2021 with three units, 2 TB of annotated ROS data, and operators saving 20–30 minutes per day while robots handle 10–20% of nurse calls. The stack uses AWS RoboMaker, Greengrass and upcoming RoboRunner for fleet orchestration, private cellular edge deployments, simulation-driven validation for HIPAA constraints, and a separate product Lea (medical-class) proving gait monitoring for Parkinson’s patients.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction to robotics talk
- 1:05Traditional robotics vs cloud-enabled robots
- 8:58Assistive robotics in healthcare
- 13:07Lea robot for Parkinson's patients
- 14:31MultiplyLabs lab automation
- 15:33AWS robot development tools
- 19:51Cosmos Robotics in nursing homes
- 21:41Staffing crisis in nursing homes
- 23:05Aby robot assisting nurses
- 27:26Q&A on robot disinfection
- 35:30Closing remarks and Q&A
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