Partial soft body robots - A literature review

Abstract

One of the biggest concerns for every country is to look after their ageing population and provides them a safe life with safe medical equipment and technology. It is estimated that there will increase the ageing of the population in Japan, Western Europe, USA and India with 40%, 30%, 20% and 15%, respectively by the end of the year 2050. Hence, it will create a burden on aged care centres to hire more nursing staff members, which leads to increase the medication cost. One of the feasible solutions to solve this issue is to design the soft robots which will give care to patients at aged care centres. These robots can support patients by providing medicine to them without the assistance of the nursing staff during injury or illness. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate the need of the partial soft robotic arm which can look after patients like robots for interactive body assistance.