Robot services development by international collaborative PBL(Project Based Learning) with universities in three countries

Abstract

In Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology (Japan), we have been carrying out the global PBL (Project Based Learning) for developing a robot service in collaboration with foreign universities from 2008. Universiti Brunei Darussalam (Brunei Darussalam) and Unitec Institute of Technology (New Zealand) participated in this global PBL last year. Then, we carried out a collaborative project by the universities in these three countries as a new trial. We made a support robot called "Buddy-bot" for a chronic infant patient by this PBL. In this paper, we report about the summary of the global PBL for 2014, and results of developments of the robot services.