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MEET ROBIN, A very helpful robot.
He lives with 94-year-old Italian woman Lea Mina Ralli – also known as Grandma Lea – who could not live on her own anymore but wanted to stay in her own home. An EU-funded team has developed the GiraffPlus system; a robot which connects older people to their family, friends and healthcare professionals.
Wearable devices and sensors throughout the home also keep an eye on the person’s health and activities.
The system is expected to be in commercial production by the end of 2015 and the EU market for robots and devices assisting our older people is estimated to reach €13 billion by 2016.
“People ask why I don’t just live with my daughter, but she has grandchildren of her own and many new responsibilities. With this valuable assistant that I call ‘Mr Robin’ I’m more relaxed about the years ahead, and so are my children and grandchildren,” Gradma Lea explained.
She has been using the system for five months and writes about ‘Mr Robin’ in her blog frequently.
€3 million of EU funding has been invested in GiraffPlus to test how robotics and other devices could help older people live safer, more independent lives. Robin’s sensors are designed to detect activities like cooking, sleeping or watching television and monitor health – blood pressure or sugar levels for example.
They allow the person’s carers to monitor their wellbeing remotely and to check for falls. The robot moves around the home on wheels and allows family, friends and carers to see and speak to the person.
Project co-ordinator Amy Loutfi said the robot will be in fifteen homes by the end of the year.
“So far we have had six homes in Europe – two homes each in Spain, Sweden and Italy – that have lived with the GiraffPlus system,” she said. “We currently are in the middle of the evaluations, but we see that various aspects of the system are appreciated differently by the different users. This goes to show that a one-size fits all approach to technology at home is not necessarily the best, and technology should be both adaptable and tailored to user’s needs”.
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Arkham Knight! I’ll have to ask Santa nicely for a PS4 console now. I can always wish… Failing that I can sell crack to blind kids & make a few bob that way.
Uncharted and LBP3 look amazing. The Order could be promising
Other than that it was just multiplatform stuff. (Far cry and AC Unity also look great).
That being said there isnt much to encourage me to but a PS4 until this time next year
but* = buy
Looking forward to Destiny, but what I really want is a Fallout 4 announcement of some sort
I’m really in want of a PS4 right now @.@
That’s more like it Sony, I was an xbox fan for so long, not anymore!!
Same. I had both an Xbox 360 and a PS3 but I only have a PS4 now.
Nothing about Bloodborne? Considering the director is the same guy who did Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls 1 you’d think there’d be more attention about it…
There was a vid released at e3 showcasing BloodBourne, journal doesn’t have it though.
The only one there with looking forward to is mgs
Really? The trailer bored the arse off me quite frankly. I know Kojima likes his long, theatrical…well, everything, but this was just obscure. Am I the only one that has no idea what the mechanical arm is about? Is Snake the guy that killed Harrison Ford’s wife in The Fugitive?
I’d hold off on getting it right away wait for it to come bundled with mgs ground zero
Abes odyssey in July it’s going to be new n tasty
DLNA and i’ll upgrade from the PS3. Until then not interested.
For the love of all that is good, no more multiplayer first person shooters! It’s depressing looking at the state of shelves for the PS4, making me regret ever going next gen from my xbox…
That being said…. GRIM FANDANGO!!!!
I’ve been waiting for a Grim Fandango remake for years.
Rainbow six siege I’ll say no more looks like a winner to me
Still no DLNA
Uncharted!! Wow
About 3 games look good. Rest look crap. MGS looks like it needs to just go away. The Playstation TV looks good, but needs more then just been able to play on different tv’s for me to be interested. But at least Mircosoft built theirs into the Xbone.
Can’t wait for BF Hardline, MGS, Star Wars Battlefront, The Division, Destiny, Uncharted 4, The Last of Us (remastered) and Rainbow Six to name a few!
Thought they might bring out a tablet to rival iPad mini.sony only have big tablets so far
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