Kaspar, a robot friend of autistic children
Inviting children with autism to play or study can be fun. Japanese robot with Kaspar. Kaspar, aka Kinesis Personal Assistant and synchronization in the Robots is a humanoid robot in the shape of a small child that is used in Japan to help children with autism.
Kaspar, developed at the University of Hertfordshire, England has
with minimal facial expression in order not to startle the students
his autism. But he will reply to children’s expressions like happy, surprised or just ordinary faces.
As quoted by Cumaini from Cnet, on Friday (08/27/2010), cultivating Kaspar spend $ 2500 or about USD 22.4 million. According to the creator of the robot team, this cost has been kept to a minimum so that the future is easy to do advanced research.
Kaspar has a little motor that could only simulate simple motion, while it is communicating. He could only move the head, neck, arms and hands, winking simultaneously record video and can even open his mouth and then smiled.
On the outside of the body is wrapped Kaspar plus child mannequin robot that serves silicone skin bandage so the robot can distinguish the sensor each time the child touched.
Kaspar who was part of a research project robot therapy for autistic children are usually seated at a table with legs crossed the same as when other kids were sitting. Kaspar even able to move the hands and face for playing ‘Peekaboo’.
Autistic children to touch Kaspar deliberately stimulated in order to increase self awareness and reduce the isolation of children who have severe autism.
