Daegu City Distributes 'Smart Care Robots' to Welfare Centers and Nursing Facilities for Disabled
Selected for Project Led by Robot Industry Promotion Agency... National Funding Support Expanded Up to 70%
From the left, the stationary lower limb rehabilitation system (Donga Metal), smart urine processing robot (Woori Soft).
View original image[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Dong-wook] Daegu City announced on the 2nd that starting in June, it will actively distribute 'Smart Care Robots' to welfare centers for the disabled and elderly nursing facilities to enhance the convenience of rehabilitation and caregiving personnel.
This project was finally selected for the '2020 Robot Utilization Socially Vulnerable Benefit Support Project' hosted by the Korea Institute for Robot Industry Advancement. Daegu City will carry out this project until November with a total budget of 462 million KRW, including 323.4 million KRW in national funds and 138.6 million KRW in city funds.
The Smart Care Robots consist of two types: the 'Stationary Lower Limb Rehabilitation Robot System' and the 'Smart Urine Disposal Robot.' The Stationary Lower Limb Rehabilitation Robot System is a gait rehabilitation training system used for patients with lower limb walking disabilities to rebuild lower limb muscles and restore joint movement. The Smart Urine Disposal Robot is a device that allows elderly or infirm individuals to easily manage urine at home or hospital beds through a configuration of a urine suction module, storage device, and suction tube connector.
In this project, the Korea Institute for Robot Industry Advancement increased the national funding support ratio from the original 50% to 70% of the total project cost to assist robot companies struggling financially due to COVID-19.
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Choi Un-baek, Director of the Economic Bureau of Daegu City, stated, "This project will greatly contribute to reducing the workload of caregiving personnel, increasing patients' psychological stability, and fundamentally improving the quality of life for socially vulnerable groups." He added, "We plan to promote various projects such as the non-face-to-face untact robot demonstration and distribution hub project and the mobile collaborative robot regulatory free zone to leap forward as a true leading city in the robot industry."
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