1) KIST is collaborating internationally with Denmark and New Zealand on research using robots for elderly care and cognitive training. 2) KIST's Robot Venture company "RoboCare" plans to form a joint venture with Denmark by end of 2014 to provide elder care robots. 3) Robots will be used for educational purposes in India and Russia in 2014, including for special needs children.

1. Intelligent Robot for Cognitive Training of the elderly people
Bionics Center/KIST
Dr.-Ing. Mun-Sang Kim
www.irobotics.re.kr

2. 5 Rep. Robots at KIST
•for home errands
•world-class speed
•brings items from refrigerator
•sets & clears meals
•pours water into a cup
•carries items to and from
•for show host (MC)
•world-class HRI tech.
•facial expression, lip- sync
•announcement(TTS)
•sing & dance
•omnidirectional walk
CIROS 3.0
KIBO 3.0
Robotics Education
Elder Care/ Cog. Training
Special Education
•Safe/ Speedy/ Silent
•Humanlike Behaviors & Expressions (100 sorts above)
•Connection to external Sensors & Smart devices
SILBOT3
MERO-S
MERO3
MERO-SERIES
Customer Guidance
Edu & Entertainment, Game, Dance
Support in optimal environment for robot SW dev.
Provides w/ hands-on training materials for College robotics education.
3D Graphic Simulator/ iRSP(Motion Planner)
Provides w/ more than 30 types of SW components like Recog. Navi, Manipulation , Expression, etc.
SDK | SW DEV. KIT
•Gravity Compensation, 4 DoFface
•Humanlike Expressions of Happy, Sad, Angry, Pleasant & Real-time Lip-sync
•Easy Creation of facial expressions based on Motion Capture tech.

3. •An aging rate in major advanced countries is expected to reach by more than 25% in their total population.
•Of the total elderly at over 65, 5~10%have dementia.
•Research results show that cognitive training improves cognitive functions and brain functions.
•Helsinki city in Finland,inputs 60% of its total budget to welfare projects (0.2 billion euro supported in 2009)
Key Issue is healthy aging !
6

4. Why Robots for Cognitive Training ?
•Lack of specially trained teachers
•Very interesting !
•Upgrade is very simple
•The quality of education is same everywhere.
•Cheap !
Challenge : whether intelligent robots can be accepted by the elderly people

5. Relationships between Cognition training program & Cognitive domains
PICK THE PAIR
Improve Memory function
SING SING SING
Improve Memory function
STORY MEMORY
Improve Memory function
GUESS WHAT?
Improve Language function
Frontal Lobe
Motor Control/ Attention/ Verbal Fluency(left)/ Movement Control/ Planning/ Emotion Control
RHYTHM TOUCH
Enhance the Attention ability
BINGO
Stregnthenthe brain functions related to inference & determination
LUCKY CATCH
Enhance the Attention ability
Parietal Lobe
Integrating sensory info/ Parietal system/ Calculation/ Manipulation of objects (right)/ Spatial sense (left)
FOLLOW ME
Improve the visuospatial processing
HIT THE NUMBER
Improve the Prominent role in math
KING OF CALCULATION
Improve the Prominent role in math
PICTURE PUZZLE
Improve the visuospatial processing
PICTURE PUZZLE
Improve the visuospatial processing
MOVE LIKE ME
Improve Memory function
KNOWING YOU, KNOWING ME
Improve Memory function
CLEAN UP
Improve Language function
ROBOTCON
Strengthen the visual memory
Temporal Lobe
Auditory perception/ Verbal comprehension (left)/ Memory
MERO GAME.
KNOWING YOU
KNOWING ME
SILBOT GAME.
ROBOTCON
MERO GAME.
KING OF CALCUATION

6. Curriculum
•Nov. 7, 2011 ~ Feb. 10, 2012 / 12 weeks
•SILBOT & MERO used.
•total 16 cognition training games
•Total 48 people (aged 66~)/ 6 groups, 8 people a class
Details
•Provide with the Elder Care Robots to centers for elder in AarhusDenmark
•Service of Dementia Prevention program with cognition training games for the elderly
Venue
•VikaGarden, 2 Classrooms
Consortium
•City of Aarhus: Support of project operation in VikaGarden, Aarhus, Denmark
•GAHA Company: General Project Management
•Center for Intelligent Robotics of KIST: Provide the Robotic system for project
•RobowareCo., Ltd: Production of the Robots
•Samsung Medical Center Co., Ltd: Planning the Robotic Cognition Training Games
History
•Nov. 2010: Demark Care Ware Net visitedto KIST
•Feb. 2011: MOU betweenKIST & City of Aarhus
•Nov. 07, 2011: Opening of the RobotProject
•Nov. 11, 2011: PressConf. & Signing Ceremony [Letter of Intent]
* KIST & GAHA & City of Aarhus
•Feb. 10, 2012:Terminate the project & plan to establish Joint Venture Com with KIST & City of Aarhus
TV2/ oj[21/11/11]
TV2 [21/11/11]
9
TV2 [22/11/11]
TV2 [22/11/11]
MOU: KIST & City of Aarhus [11/02/11]
Signing Ceremony & Press Conf. [21/11/11]
DENMARK (Aarhus), ELDER CARE ROBOT PROJECT

7. 10
[EXAMINEE] TOTAL 85 PEOPLE,
aged over 60 without diagnosed dementia
[HUMAN CLASS]
24 people
8 ppl. * 3 class
[ROBOT CLASS]
24 people
8 ppl. * 3 class
[CONTROL GROUP]
37 people,
not in the program
• MRI (T1, DTI, resting fMRI)
• Neural Mental Exam
• (SNSG/ ADAS-Cog/ CANTAB)
• SURVEY
• (Brain/ Physical/ Social/
Memory Satisfaction/
Depression, etc.)
• MRI (T1, DTI, resting fMRI)
• Neural Mental Exam
• (SNSG/ ADAS-Cog/ CANTAB)
• SURVEY
• (Brain/ Physical/ Social/ Memory
Satisfaction/ Depression, etc.)
BASELINE FOLLOW-UP
12weeks
later
Evaluation Process
Evaluation

8. Compared to the control group, subjects who underwent 3 months of cognitive training showed less cortical thinning (both with conventional cognitive training and robot- assisted cognitive training)
Robot assisted cognitive training delays cortical thinning
Brain MRI Results

9. Brain Fitness Robot
12

10. 13
Silbot3
Ideal intelligent robot platform optimized to robotic research and real applications

11. VIDEO
14
Mero

12. SDK
Software Development Kit map

13. Korea:75,000 under special education / 5.5 students per class
Finland: As of 2008, 8% of full time students are in special education / There has been a continual increase of part time students in special education.
•Educational robot for nursery children and elementary school children with autism and ADHD
•Tele type: Interaction with children through remote operation of robot by teacher
•Auto type: Programming with special subject curriculum to be used as psychology treatment for children
PART
FULL TIME
Diagnostic evaluation
Hazard management
Assisting education
SPECIAL EDU ROBOT
Educational robot for children with autism and ADHD
•Repeat evaluation question via robot (examiner)
•Collect reaction of children (examinee) and analyze result
•Analyze abnormal behavior record
•Arbitrate crisis by robot
•Improve concentration
•Execute program
[Source] Statistics Office in Finland
-During the basic education period, a number of students transferred from ordinary class to special education class, and a number of students take part time special education. 20

14. 1.International research collaboration is being planned with Denmark and New Zealand.
2.The KIST invested Robot Venture “RoboCare” is to found a Joint-Venture company in Denmark by the end of 2014.
3.Robots will be used for the education purpose in India and Russia in 2014.
4.New Application for the children needing special care has just started.