A feeder robot arm for aiding the elder people with meals

Abstract

Japan’s aging rate is considered extremely high, outweighing all other nations in the world. On the other hand, the robotics and automation industry have received great support and encouragement for growth in every field possible including eldercare. However, we find several common disadvantages in every system, including an ex-ceedingly high cost and lack of flexibility. In order to give a solution to these draw-backs, we aim at designing a cost-efficient robot arm for helping in mealtime with an efficient control system, flexibility in usage and embedded vision systems with big data analysis on the cloud.