Development of Assistive Robots Using International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health: Concept, Applications, and Issues

Many assistive robots for elderly and disabled people have been developed in the past few decades. However, very few of them became commercially available. The major cause of the problem is that the cost-benefit ratio and the risk-benefit ratio of them are not good or not known. The evaluation of th...

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Main Authors: Hideyuki Tanaka, Masahiro Yoshikawa, Eimei Oyama, Yujin Wakita, Yoshio Matsumoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2013-01-01
Series:Journal of Robotics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/608191