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Robotic Solutions Fields of Lifestyle and Social Welfare, As Well As Public Services and Disaster Preparedness NEDO TOPICS ® th Demonstration tests of the robotic suit “HAL ” Oct. 18 launched in Germany 2013. - Project by NEDO and the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy - No.50 NEDO and the North Rhine-Westphalia (1) (2) Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy began demonstration tests of a robotic medical device intended for a broad range of applications in clinical practice. The wearable robot “HAL®”, developed by CYBERDYNE Inc. as part of a NEDO Reporting on Today and Tomorrow’s Energy, Environmental and Industrial Technologies project, was introduced to a hospital in the city of Bochum, where tests have been conducted to demonstrate how the device could meet local medical needs. The hope is that public health insurance plans might cover the device and that its use might Featured Article (3) ® expand throughout Europe. (1) Robotic suit “HAL ” (2) A demonstration in Prior to the start of the demonstration Germany tests, Kenji Kurata, NEDO President, and (3) Dr. Kurata, NEDO Garrelt Duin, Minister for Economic President [left] and Mr. Duin, Minister for Affairs, Energy and Industry of the state Economic Affairs, of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Energy and Industry Robotic signed a corresponding agreement for of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, demonstration in Bochum. sign the agreement Solutions Building a smart society with state-of-the-art technology New Enegy and Industrial Technology Development Organization NEDO is developing robotics technologies with the expectation of practical applications in the Robotic Solutions fields of lifestyle and social welfare, as well as public services and disaster preparedness. NEDO aims to realize a convenient and comfortable “smart society” where robots are active in various Building a smart society with state-of-the-art technology parts of our everyday lives in the near future. Living assistance robots → Pages 8-9 Robots for special environments → Pages 10-11 ● Cleaning Robot ●Robotic Bed ●“Reborg Q” A robot that recognizes its surroundings ● “Super Giraffe” ● “Super Lifter” and automatically cleans floor surfaces A robot that supports an independent A security patrol robot with A remotely operated robot that A remotely operated cargo truck for handling in facilities such as office buildings. lifestyle by combining an electric care specialized security functions moves freely in areas where heavy objects and delivering them to upper bed with an electric wheelchair that can operate in concert people cannot go and can reach floors with the ability to lift objects up to 4 with security guards. locations up to 8 meters high tons to a maximum height of 30 meters. with a robotic arm that has seven articulated joints. ● “Quince” ● “Winglet” A crawler-type rescue robot that can enter A mobile support robot for a areas difficult for humans to enter such as standing rider that can move disaster sites and perform a survey of the forwards, backwards, left, and conditions. right safely and easily just by shifting one’s body weight. ● Universal Vehicle “Rodem” A mobile health care and welfare robot boarded from the rear on which a rider can maintain either a sitting or standing posture. ● “ASTACO NEO” A robot that can handle complicated operations by combining a powerful main arm and a secondary arm that assists the main one that function similarly to human’s two arms. ® ●Robotic Suit “HAL ” ® ● Robotic Suit “HAL ” A robot that expands, amplifies, and ●Walking Assist supports physical functions by interpreting A robot that provides optimal for Disaster Recovery the bioelectric signals coming from the walking assistance based on A power-assist exoskeletal robot that can operate safely without surface of the user’s skin to determine the information from a hip joint angle harming one’s health in environments contaminated by hazardous user’s intended physical movement. sensor gathered while walking. materials as well as in extremely hot and humid environments. 2 3 NEDO Interview 2014 Will be the “first year of the robot” Market expansion predicted in the field A 10 Trillion Yen Robotics Market with the establishment of safety standards of lifestyle support robotics in the Future – We have heard about NEDO’s early involvement in – How much will the robotic market grow in the future? robotic development. Please begin by telling us about that Growing to follow automobile and home electronics history. Kukita: Although the current living assistance robotic market is on the scale of several billion yen, we see the as the next major industry Kukita: NEDO’s robotic development began 25 years ago potential for the market to grow to roughly 5 trillion yen NEDO is promoting the development of robots for use in various aspects of society, including our everyday in 1988, when we took over responsibility for industrial by 2035. technology development from the Agency of Industrial lives, nursing and welfare, and disaster response. Some robots have already been commercialized, and there are Science and Technology at the Ministry of International also some projects that have been started overseas. Robotic development will also reach a substantial turning Trade and Industry (MITI). At the time the focus was point with plans to establish safety standards during the current fiscal year. Shoji Kukita will discuss what sort robots doing tasks where humans could not go, not on Projected robot industry market by 2035 of role NEDO will play within this process and how the robotics market will develop in the future. Trillion personal robots as now. In order to discover robotics’ yen Service sector potential we took an across-the-board strategy. 10.0 2035 History of NEDO robotics development This changed dramatically after the Aichi World Expo in Agriculture, forestry and 9.0 fisheries sector 9.3 trillion 2005. As our focus moved towards full-fledged 2025 yen Robotech (RT) products 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 commercialization, NEDO launched the Next-Generation 8.0 5.3 trillion Robot Commercialization Project and Living Assistance Manufacturing sector yen Robot Practical Application Project one after the other. In 7.0 Project for Strategic Development of Development of necessary robotics systems and elemental technologies to achieve the seven missions born from the needs of market and society. particular, our current focus is on living assistance 6.0 Advanced Robotics Elemental Technologies Manufacturing robotics area robotics. (1) Develop manufacturing robots that can handle flexible, fragile objects 5.0 2020 (2) Develop human-robot cooperative cell-type assembly systems 2.9 trillion Service robotics area – Although living assistance robots could be seen at 4.0 yen 2015 (3) Develop robots for clean-up operations various expositions in recent times, it seems that they have (4) Develop communication assistance robots for the elderly 3.0 1.6 trillion (5) Develop transportation robots not been widely commercialized. What might be the yen Special environment robotics area reason for this? 2.0 (6) Develop robots for moving inside buildings damaged in disasters Manufacturing robots that can Robots for disposing industrial Robots for moving inside 1.0 handle flexible, fragile objects waste related to construction buildings damaged in disasters (7) Develop robots for disposing industrial waste related to construction Kukita: There are a variety of reasons like the small market 0.0 Development Project for a Common size and high prices, but the fact that safety standards have 2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 2035 not been established is a substantial factor. We are in the Basis of Next-generation Robots Intelligent RT process of developing robot safety standards that would be Software Project In order to be able to develop high performance robots efficiently at a low cost, we ＊Robotech (RT) is an abbreviation for “robotic technology.” developed and tested the effectiveness of common components (modularization) based on certification by third parties, and we are making We developed RT critical components for installation on robots Source: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, “Trends in for a range of intelligent software that functions as the “brain” required for a robot as well as a fundamental communication module for linking RT the shift to ISO by the end of this fiscal year. If we can do the market for the robot industry.” to perform tasks such as movement, communication, and work. critical components and a network. Then we built a household RT Elemental technology and this, I think that the robot market will grow and the year of system that combined these elements, and tested its efficacy. ● Develop robot intelligence software platforms ● Develop modular-type intelligence technologies 2014 might become the “First Year of the Robot.” ● Developed fundamental communication modules ● and RT critical components Fundamental Robotic Test the efficacy of these technologies ● Developed and tested RT systems based on RT Technology Utilization fundamental technological development critical components Shoji Kukita Fundamental Technology Project for Practical Application of Human Support Robots Living Assistance Robot Practical Director General, Application Project Technological Development We developed robots and conducted demonstration tests in three important Promotion Department, NEDO areas of welfare and nursing. Advanced ● Developed rehabilitation support robots and technologies necessary for commercialization featured PROFILE development ● Developed autonomous movement support robots and technologies
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