The award winning project is designed to assist elderly folks living independently with their daily needs and communications. For example, it can remind them about their medications and daily activities, and helps them to communicate easily with family and doctors.
The system called CareDroids is a package consisting of seven features, including the humanoid robot (Reeti) which is able to maintain daily reminders, verbal reminders for medication intake, reading tweets with sentiments, have video-conferencing with family and doctors, vision-based heart rate measurement, and finally vision-based facial emotion recognition. The design and methodology is shown in Picture 2.
The team which called themselves RoboWrags were from the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology of University of Malaya. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Loo Chu Kiong, the team members were Md. Nazrul Islam, Hossein Siamaknejad and Zeeshan Rasool.
The competition, called the 2013-2014 International Robot PRIDE, was held in Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) in Shah Alam from 21-22 June 2014. The first place winners in the competition were a team from Nagoya University, Japan and the 3rd place was T. Balaji from India.
