The Wirtschaftsbrief Gesundheit, a German observatory for innovations, research and technologies in the area of health, presents MARIO in its latest issue.
Click here to see the report and also visit the electronic pages of Wirtschaftsbrief Gesundheit by clicking here: www.wirtschaftsbrief-gesundheit.de
Our MARIO robot met the students of two high schools in San Giovanni Rotondo in the conference hall of the IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza Hospital. The participants had the possibility to learn about the MARIO project and to directly interact with the robot. Antonio Greco from Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza gave the audience a short introduction on the impact of dementia on the world population. Massimiliano Raciti from R2M presented the speech recognition component of the robot. Valentina Presutti, Alessandro Russo and Alessandra Vitanza from CNR presented how the robot makes decisions based on the surrounding environment inputs and the robot navigation module.
The funniest moment of the day was when a student was asked to go on the stage to interact with MARIO. In this case, the student answered some questions given by the robot in order to compute the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) that is used in order to evaluate the frailty level of elderly people. The questions administered by the robot referred to some basic actions of daily living and they generated smiles among students since some of them refer to the private sphere of the patients’ life.
Seven months after the last general assembly meeting, it is almost time for all the partners of the MARIO project consortium to meet again. The last general assembly meeting of the project will be held from 8 to 10 November in the beautiful city of Rome, at the ISTC-CNR's headquarters.
Partners coming from different European countries will meet to discuss the latest developments and plan the closeout of the project, which will end in January 2018. This meeting will thus be crucial in order to allow the MARIO team to address in the best possible way the final phase and start preparing for the latest project review.
MARIO included in the ‘World Trends 2018’ report issued by KOTRA, the Korean Trade-Investment Promotion Agency!
Aimee Robbins-van Wynsberghe works at Delft University in the Netherlands as an Assistant Professor and is also Co-director of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics with an office in Hague. Aimee is also the ethics adviser for an industrial robots project on Robot Operating Systems and a member of MARIO Ethics & Privacy Supervisory board.
Last August Aimee gave an interview to the Quartz magazine, where she spoke about the future of relationships between humans and robots, which are ‘on the cusp of a sexual intimacy we may never reverse’. You can read the entire interview here.
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