There is a clear manpower shortage in the care industry. The declining birth rate, combined with the difficulty in meeting the number of care workers required, has led to a growing movement to curb the number of persons in care. The aim of curbing the number of persons in care is to ensure that the elderly remain in good health and to reduce the number of care workers needed. A shortage of care workers also means that conventional institutional care becomes more difficult, and attention is increasingly focusing on home care. In addition, although there is a wide range of functions required of care robots, most of the robots currently on the market have only one or two functions. For these reasons, there is a need for multi-tasking robots that can be used in confined environments such as the home and that can assist people in their activities. In this study, with the aim of developing a small care-assist robot to support independence, the design and production of the robot body, the introduction of independent running and verification experiments were carried out.

Kenta Yanagimachi