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

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

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

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

Aware Home (Georgia Tech, 1990s)

Aware Home

Sleep lab at home?

Instrumented and Actuated Shoes

Companion Robot Google images “care robot companion robot”

Light Work Google images “Home Robot”

Heavy Lifting Google images “Robots lifting people transfer”

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, …

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

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