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There's a lot of talk about Japan's rapidly aging society, and how it is expected to literally place a heavy burden on the island nation's caregivers. Among the many projected problems is a smaller pool of health care workers amidst a growing tide of elderly who require around-the-clock care. With that kind of workload, nurses are more likely to injure themselves or their patients when lifting them into and out of bed. Various solutions are in the works, such as a giant lifting robot that looks like a teddy bear, but few are as practical as Panasonic's Resyone robotic bed. It recently became the first to be certified ISO13482 compliant, the new global safety standard for service robots. .. Continue Reading Panasonic's robotic bed/wheelchair first to earn global safety certification
Section: Health and Wellbeing
Tags: Bed, Health, Japan, Panasonic, Robotics, Seniors, Transformable, Wheelchairs
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There's a lot of talk about Japan's rapidly aging society, and how it is expected to literally place a heavy burden on the island nation's caregivers. Among the many projected problems is a smaller pool of health care workers amidst a growing tide of elderly who require around-the-clock care. With that kind of workload, nurses are more likely to injure themselves or their patients when lifting them into and out of bed. Various solutions are in the works, such as a giant lifting robot that looks like a teddy bear, but few are as practical as Panasonic's Resyone robotic bed. It recently became the first to be certified ISO13482 compliant, the new global safety standard for service robots. .. Continue Reading Panasonic's robotic bed/wheelchair first to earn global safety certification
Section: Health and Wellbeing
Tags: Bed, Health, Japan, Panasonic, Robotics, Seniors, Transformable, Wheelchairs
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via http://www.gizmag.com/
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