Technology details
- They use heavy physical work using tactile sensors
- Riba has a joint structure designed to lift up humans.
- Riba has 2 cameras and 2 microphones, this is so that it can follow an operator using vision and audition.
- It has a soft body so it can make patient comfortable as they are being lifted. It's also a teddy bear like, so patients have a friendly idea of it instead of a scary mean ease look.
- the robot has a omni-wheel so it can move in any direction, this is where the batteries and main computer are mounted on.
- You cant control Riba by touching its direct tactile sensors.
- They have developed a dynamic simulator, this is used for motion planning and software tests.
- motions are planned based on the knowledge obtained by human motions.