Preventing Dementia Through Brain Function Recognition... RoboCare's 'Silbeot' Selected as Excellent Product This Year

Cognitive Enhancement Content by Brain Function Installed
Depression Index Decreased by 24%, Anxiety Index Decreased by 17%

Robot development company Robocare announced on the 29th that its dementia prevention cognitive training robot system, 'Silvet,' was selected as the Excellent Product of the Year at the RoboWorld exhibition. Photo by Robocare

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Heeyoon] Robot development company Robocare announced on the 29th that its dementia prevention cognitive training robot system ‘Silbeot’ was selected as the excellent product of the year at the RoboWorld exhibition.

Silbeot, selected as an excellent product by the Korea Robot Industry Association, the organizer of RoboWorld, is a robot equipped with content developed in collaboration with neurologists and neuropsychology experts from Samsung Seoul Hospital. The learning difficulty can be set according to individual dementia and depression tests and applied in 1 to 10 levels per content.

It consists of 20 types of content designed to enhance brain function, such as scenes reminiscent of grocery shopping where users guess the remaining amount of money, and word matching games. With voice support, it plays songs preferred by the elderly, such as ‘Nae Naiga Eottaeseo’ (So What About My Age), and its arms move at certain angles to help seniors dance along with the robot.

According to Robocare, Silbeot is composed of ▲frontal lobe specialized content that enhances reasoning and judgment ▲parietal lobe specialized content that improves spatial thinking ▲temporal lobe specialized content that enhances memory and language comprehension, thereby providing dementia prevention effects.

Professor Kim Geonha (Neurology, Ewha Mokdong Hospital), who participated in the development of the dementia robot, reported to the academic community that after one month of brain training using the robot, not only was concentration improved, but depression scores decreased by 24% and anxiety scores by 17%.

Silbeot can provide cognitive training simultaneously for up to 20 elderly people, including general seniors and those with mild cognitive impairment who are not yet in a dementia state. Accordingly, Silbeot is being supplied to dementia safety centers installed in public health centers nationwide, senior welfare centers, and nursing homes.

Kim Deokjun, CEO of Robocare, said, “Silbeot is installed and operating in 46 locations nationwide, including Gangnam and Seocho districts in Seoul, and Suwon and Yongin in Gyeonggi Province,” adding, “Following the development of Bomi-I, the only desktop cognitive training robot in Korea, we plan to introduce Bomi-II, which includes emergency call service and medication reminder functions.”

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