Design and implementation of an interactive nurse robot

Abstract

In this paper, an interactive nurse robot is developed which has worked successfully in home environment. The mobile robot, driven by two motors/wheels, consists of image processing, speech recognition, semantic analysis, local/remote interaction, and autonomous mobile components to provide nursing functions of surveillance, interaction, accompanying, patrol, and urgent announcement. Since the proposed robot is desired to service children and/or elders in home, its appearance and actions should be loveable and safe. The experimental results reveal the interactive nurse robot really reaches the goals of attracting and looking after children.