SILBOT

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SILBOT is a Medical-Robots from ROBOCARE. It is built for Companionship, Helping, Education. Key figures: 25 kg, 360 min runtime, 11 degrees of freedom.

SILBOT is ROBOCARE's group cognitive-training robot for older people and people at risk of dementia. A humanoid-style robot on omni wheels, it acts as an assistant teacher in classes of up to 12 people aged over 65 or with mild cognitive impairment, running brain-training content for the frontal, parietal and temporal lobes that was co-developed with Korean neurologists. Courses run for 3 or 6 months, one to three times a week, and the difficulty of each item can be set from level 1 to 7 based on MMSE and SGDS screening in its app. The robot recognises participants' voices and movements, makes eye contact and shows about 300 emotion expressions through a 3D avatar on its 9.7-inch touchscreen. It has 11 degrees of freedom in its arms, head and base, runs ROS on an Intel i3 computer and speaks Korean and English in several voices. A study by Seoul Samsung Hospital, published in PLOS One, found cortical thickness held up after 3 months of robot training, while it thinned in comparison groups. ROBOCARE reported Silbot in use at 28 sites nationwide in September 2019.

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