1. Chris Atkeson CMU Robotics Institute 6/21/17
How Smart Homes, Wearable Devices, And Robots Could Affect Future Health Care
Chris Atkeson
CMU Robotics Institute
6/21/17

2. Future Health Care Will Emphasize
Care outside a doctor’s office or hospital
Preventive care
Early detection
Chronic care
Behavior change:
Smoking
Seat belts/air bags
HIV
Diet, exercise, mental wellness, character/personality

3. Some Needs/Opportunities
Monitoring/Baby-sitting
Companionship/Behavior-changing/ Nagging
Light work: cleaning, food preparation, feeding, …
Heavy lifting: transfer, user movement

4. Monitoring Handle accidents, protect older adults
Monitor conditions, side effects, reduce risk
Keep people in own homes as long as possible
Cameras, microphones, IoT, wearables, smart homes

5. Aware Home (Georgia Tech, 1990s)

6. Aware Home

7. Sleep lab at home?

8. Instrumented and Actuated Shoes

9. Companion Robot
Google images “care robot companion robot”

10. Light Work
Google images “Home Robot”

11. Heavy Lifting
Google images “Robots lifting people transfer”

12. What Have I Learned?
1) It is easy to fund and sell “building a physical thing”.
This is the wrong way to go.
The most helpful thing we can do is deliver services (monitoring, companionship, …)
through a variety of devices
Don’t build a robot.
2) Take advantage of what is happening with cell phones, personal assistants, cars, …

13. Technological Opportunities
Cell Phones
Personal Agents
Internet of Things (IoT)
Networked Homes
Networked Cars
Networked Offices, Malls, …
Robots
Wearable Technology

14. Some Current CMU Projects
Friend For Life
Lifelong personal companions, agents, servants, coaches, and teachers.
City-scale Behavior Capture
Proposed center: Understanding Action and Affect Through High Definition Behavioral Analysis