Social robots helps Wollongong resident stay connect during COVID-19

A retirement village resident of IRT Links Seaside Wollongong has caught a coup d'oeil of the emerging after being selected to examination drive an Ohmni telepresence robot in his home.

The robot was loaned to IRT by Canberra-based Robots 4 Good in the midst of the general last year to test how the technology could help overpower social isolation and uninterrupted access to care for habitation care customers during lockdown.

IRT Group Executive General Manager of Home Care Ross Gallagher says the pandemic has forced United States of America to consider new shipway of doing things, especially how we stay connected when we'atomic number 75 obligatory to continue physically far-flung.

"If you desire to see what the future of old in place looks comparable, telepresence robots could well be set out of it," Ross said.

"The robot has applications from a friendly connectivity perspective and a caring perspective. We're really excited about it."

In the context of supporting the delivery of home care services, the robot can be used to conduct care plan and budget reviews remotely, daily health checks to detect waterfall and could even be used in the future to monitor vitals and offend wish.

David Robson has hosted the robot, which he has fondly named Bluey, in his home at IRT Links Seaboard since late Grand.

The golem is a wheeled device that family and carers can remotely control to move around the home. It has a wide-angle camera on a screen with a tilting cervix to ensure a wider field of operations of view than you would have using a hand-held device or reckoner. The robot also doesn't require David to hold or press anything and auto-docks onto a charging station after calls.

David nominated his son Peter Robson to embody fit to securely admittance the robot remotely in order to drop time with him and check on his welfare.

"Dad has been really stoked to have the golem. We've had a lot of fun with it. It follows him around his home and KO'd onto the balcony where I can see the view that Dad is seeing. IT's like having a window that looks right into Dad's global," St. Peter the Apostl aforesaid.

David also tested forbidden the golem with his IRT Home Care manager who conducted his annual home care revue remotely using an encrypted dial-in contact to the golem.

2020 was a class full of the unexpected, with the advent of masquerade party-wearing, social distancing and strict lockdown rules to prevent the spreading of COVID-19.

For St. David, having a golem in his home to keep in touch with his son and habitation care workers Crataegus laevigata have been the biggest surprise of all.

Media release and images supplied by IRT Group.

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