Nursing home telepresence robot KOMPAÏ-1 / 2009

teleassistancy

Weak or dependent individuals of any age, family members, and healthcare and social caregivers. Assisted living facilities, establishments (hospitals), and residential homes. By compensating individuals’ vulnerabilities (while hospitalized or convalescing), with temporary and chronic conditions, or loss of autonomy due to a disability or age-related dependency. Falling is a constant risk that can have serious consequences. KOMPAÏ provides verifications, alerts key individuals, and can even call for emergency help. KOMPAÏ can manage medical parameters and connect with healthcare professionals. KOMPAÏ collects, aggregates, and stores all data from medical devices in the cloud. Sometimes it can be hard to make sense of time and place. KOMPAÏ helps to recall useful information and offers interactive entertainment. When we feel lonely, it is a great comfort to go beyond just hearing a voice and actually see your loved one! KOMPAÏ enables feeling close to family and friends, talking with them like they were there. When comfortably seated, getting up can be complicated, and someone is not always there to help. With KOMPAÏ, you simply call the robot over, get up, and go! Our team designed KOMPAÏ using patient and care-provider focus groups. The goal was to bring both cognitive and physical support, in a way that is friendly, empathetic, and reassuring, though without the intension of replacing the unique presence of human assistance. Designed in 2009, the first version of KOMPAÏ was used to generate dozens of robots that were used to conduct proofs of concept over 1,000+ days of experimentations with different users.