RMP Rounds | The Future of Elder and Dementia Care: Socially Assistive Robots

RMP Summer Series: How Artificial Intelligence/Robotics Are Transforming Our Lives Within And Beyond Medicine
Date: July 5, 2018
Speaker: Goldie Nejat, PhD, P.Eng
Canada Research Chair in Robots for Society
Associate Professor and Director of the Autonomous Systems and Biomechatronics Laboratory (ASBLab), Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Director of the Institute for Robotics and Mechatronics (IRM), University of Toronto
Topic: The Future of Elder and Dementia Care: Socially Assistive Robots That Can Help Provide Care
Learning Objectives:
1. To learn about the emerging field of socially assistive robots and how these robots can provide cognitive interventions through social interactions.
2. To recognize the types of assistance that socially assistive robots can provide older adults and their caregivers in order to benefit quality of life.
3. To recognize future directions and the increasing global need for the development and integration of assistive robotic technologies.