Care Robot

Client country: China

Services: industrial design｜machine design｜functional prototyping｜packaging design｜mold development

Project Background

With the aging population intensifying, the demand for care for the elderly living alone and disabled groups surges. Traditional manual care faces challenges like labor shortages and delayed responses. To address the imbalance between care supply and demand, this care robot is developed to provide 24/7 intelligent support integrating safety monitoring, daily assistance, and emergency response.

Solution

Preliminary Solution for Care Robot Design

A. Needs Research: Form a team including geriatrics and human-computer interaction experts.Collect the needs for safety monitoring, daily assistance, and emotional companionship ofdisabled/elderly living alone groups through questionnaires and in-depth interviews, and clarifythe priority of core functions such as fall detection and medication reminders.

B. Scenario Adaptation: For ward/home scenarios, define parameters such as obstacle avoidance accuracy and response time (e.g., fall recognition ≤ 0.5 seconds), and plan privacy protection mechanisms (local data encryption) simultaneously.

C. Technology Pre-research: Test the environmental perception effect of multi-sensor fusion (lidar + depth camera), verify the accuracy of emotional interaction algorithms (voice + facial expression recognition), and evaluate the feasibility of hardware modular selection (wheeled chassis + flexible interaction components).

Care Robot Design Process

1. Requirements Definition Phase: Integrate preliminary research results, clarify core demands for functions (such as safety monitoring), scenarios (home/ward), and users (disabled elderly), and output the “Requirements Specification Document”.

2.Conceptual Design Phase: Complete appearance sketches (soft rounded corners adapted to medical environments), functional architecture diagrams (divided into perception/interaction/execution modules), output preliminary prototype schemes and conduct reviews.

3.Detailed Design Phase: Refine hardware (sensor selection, chassis structure) and software (algorithm development, UI interface) schemes, and simultaneously formulate safety standards (such as anti-collision mechanisms).

4. Prototype Development Phase: Produce functional prototypes, complete hardware-software integration debugging, and test core tasks (fall alarm, medicine delivery) in simulated scenarios.

5. User Verification Phase: Invite target users to trial use, collect experience feedback, and iteratively optimize interaction logic and functional details.

6. Design Finalization Phase: Output final design documents (drawings, code specifications) and hand them over to the production/development phase.