Description du projet
Une plateforme robotique efficace pour l’autisme
Des robots sociaux accessibles à tous pour écrire des applications robotiques personnalisées pourraient ouvrir la voie à l’avenir des soins de santé et de l’éducation. Par exemple, ces robots conviviaux pourraient aider les personnes atteintes de troubles du spectre autistique, un trouble neurodéveloppemental qui nécessite une intervention comportementale précoce et intensive, ainsi que de nombreuses heures de thérapie individuelle par semaine, ce qui n’est pas toujours possible en raison du manque de thérapeutes. Dans ce contexte, le projet QTrobot, financé par l’UE, développera une plateforme de robots sociaux où les thérapeutes et les prestataires de soins spécialisés dans l’autisme, sans formation informatique, pourront créer, échanger, personnaliser, utiliser et évaluer des applications de robots thérapeutiques. La plateforme fournira une variété de contenus et d’applications pour répondre aux besoins multiculturels et multilingues des utilisateurs.
Objectif
Social robots are effective tools to make healthcare and education more accessible and affordable through standardization and mass replication.Today however working with robots requires extensive IT knowledge. Our vision is to bring social robots for healthcare and education from research centers to mass market by developing user-friendly robots which are accessible for everybody to script custom robot applications. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder. It costs £32 billion per year in the UK and greater than the cost of cancer, stroke and heart disease combined. The average lifetime saving of early and intensive behavioral intervention ranges from $1.6 to $2.8 million per child. This requires 20 to 40 hours of one-to-one therapy per week, costing $40,000 to 80,000 per year. The issue in USA is that while the healthcare systems pay for such therapies, there is a lack of therapists. In EU, the situation is worse as there is a tremendous lack of therapists, costs are not covered by health care systems and children receive insufficient number of hours or no therapy at all. We propose an open innovation to offer a holistic solution to make autism therapy accessible and affordable by providing a social robot platform to create, exchange, personalize, utilize and rate therapeutic robot applications by autism therapists and care providers with no IT background. An effective robotic platform for autism has to provide a large amount of various types of content and applications to meet the needs of different individuals. We make the creation of such platform and scaling it in Europe with its multi-cultrual and multi-lingual nature practical and economical through enabling user generated robot therapies to be adapted and re-used by others. This is where the economy of scale has to come from to build an app store of social robot therapies built by psychologists.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesneurobiology
- social scienceseducational sciencesdidactics
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringroboticsautonomous robots
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applications
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinateur
1724 LUXEMBOURG
Luxembourg
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.