EFE Scientists from the Chinese Institute of Technology, Harbin, in northeast country to finalize the details soon to launch a robot designed to market to care for older people living alone, state media reported today china. The robot, which cost between 30,000 and 50,000 yuan (4.000-7.000 dollars) may bring food and medicine, sounding alarms in the event that the house has leaks of water or gas, or send text messages to family and Video friends and even sing songs or play chess.
The apparatus of 1.6 meters in height, could be in stores within two or three years, according to the official stressed Xinhua Li Ruifeng, one of the project. The development of this project was commissioned by the Chinese Government to address the problem of rapid population aging china, one consequence of the one-child policy.
The country has 159 million people over 60 years, 12 percent of the total population and the limited success of nursing homes in the country makes it necessary, as estimated by the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs, some 10 million social workers and nurses to care for this population.
A robot to take care of the elderly
A flying robot to help China in its Antarctic expedition
A robot that can fly "like a mini-helicopter" and another that can be slipped on the ice to help Chinese scientists during the expedition to the Antarctic to be held in October, reported on Sunday, Xinhua news agency.
l air robot can fly for an hour and reaches speeds from 50 to 100 kilometers per hour and is equipped with a camera and an infrared radiometer for observing sea ice.
The second robot can slip between the cracks of the ice and snow slopes, said information.
"The use of robots can reduce the risk and cost of scientific research," said Qin Weijia, Polar Research Institute of China, according to the agency. "No matter how bad it is time, they can still work with normality. " The expedition of 200 men set seismic stations in Antarctica to measure tremors and tectonic movements on the continent, said the information.